Want to help your eighth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand rational and irrational numbers. Know that a rational number can be ...

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A student focusing while doing a math equation on a classroom’s whiteboard. Several studies within the past year have shown just how detrimental remote learning has been to academic progress during ...

The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

Sports provide an engaging way of exploring a host of mathematical concepts. Any hard-core baseball fan knows that the game can’t truly be appreciated without an understanding of some essential ...

North Carolina fourth- and eighth-grade students scored worse on math and reading exams this spring than before the pandemic, new federal data show. The drops in math scores are bigger than ever seen ...

The pandemic has taken its toll on education. Test scores released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress show learning has fallen back during the time kids were not regularly in class.