A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that to succeed in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) field, one needs a solid foundation in mathematics. When my sons entered college, even ...

Timed math fluency exercises—in which students are asked to solve a certain number of problems within a minute or two—do not appear to exacerbate students’ math anxiety, new research finds. The study, ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

April 16, 2026 - EdSource Editor-at-Large John Fensterwald explains how this election could reshape California schools. Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and ...

Frank Merle is used to confronting a messy world. A linear equation is something like y = 2x, which states that the value of ...