Gender gaps that had largely closed before COVID are widening again. Multiple measures are “giving flashing warning signs ...

This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. Like learning to read by third grade, taking eighth grade math ...

Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. Math and reading scores tested annually have ...

On this week's Spotlight on Education, Roxanne Strouk visits Thoreau Middle School, where student Kasra Karimi is making ...

“Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay Area. “I must have 100 songs. At least.” Jorgensen, who teaches ...

Middle school math is a formative period for building the foundations of math education for high school and college. Where are we losing students?

The pressure to reach Calculus by a student’s senior year of high school often translates into pressure to take Algebra I, the first course in a five-course sequence, by eighth grade. Algebra I (or ...

In response to low-income and minority students’ declining test scores on the state’s Smarter Balanced exam, particularly in math by the end of eighth grade, district administrators and middle ...