Amid the many signs of underperformance in American education, the growth and geographic spread of Advanced Placement courses in high schools is a widely admired success story. For several decades, AP ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - There are reports of several dozen students at Patrick Henry High School being left in the cafeteria to seemingly teach themselves complex math. This, after San Diego Unified School ...

For years Atlantic City High School math teacher Robert Cacioppo taught the traditional lesson on compound interest by using the the “Rule of 72,” which says money invested for 12 years at 6 percent ...

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...