I started teaching special education in 1970, prior to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, or PL 94-142. I welcomed the enactment of that legislation, because it forced school ...

After months of work and disappointing results on its last round of goals, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday voted 8-1 for literacy and math goals designed to shape the next six years of ...

Math I was the focus of last week’s CMS school board meeting, giving us the latest look at progress toward the goal.

Missouri became the latest state to adopt a new set of education benchmarks to replace the national Common Core standards, ditching the benchmarks Tuesday following conservative backlash. The State ...

Senate Bill 1067, which requires screening early elementary grade students for math difficulties, can significantly improve ...

The effort follows earlier battles over social studies and could spread to other states reviewing academic standards.

Each activity will start with a list of learning outcomes and goals. Learning outcomes tell students what they need to be able to master in order to succeed on exams and homework. Learning goals tell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oklahoma City Board of Education Chairperson Paula Lewis, right, speaks during a hearing May 7 at the Clara Luper Center for ...

A few years ago, third-grade teacher Laura Metrano considered herself strictly a language-arts person. “I am a writer and a reader,” she said during a break in her school day at Springhurst Elementary ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The ...

Students in Miss Faro’s mathematics classes at the Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark each created a mathematics goal that they wanted to complete before the end of the year. Each student wrote his ...

College classes are hard. As an agriculture communications student back in the day I remember wondering why I needed to learn certain skills — like advanced math. I mean, my communications focus was ...