Elementary school teachers in this country, by and large, are generalists. That means they’re required to teach everything—math, science, language arts, history, you name it, regardless of how ...

According to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 21 states and the District of Columbia saw increases at the fourth-grade level, eight of these statistically significant.

In another "Freakonomics"- style study that turns conventional wisdom about public- versus private-school education on its head, education professors have found that public-school students outperform ...

National Mathematics Awareness Month, created by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, is hoping to help people understand the link between math and climate change. Many issues that relate to ...