As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

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The overall student proficiency in math and English language arts declined over the past four years in Topsham-based Maine School Administrative District 75 schools. Six out of seven schools in the ...

REPORTER: STATE EDUCATION OFFICIALS POINTING TO THOSE RESULTS AND SAYING THAT THAT IS THE RESULT OF A LOSOFS LEARNING , BUT STILL MANY PARENTS ARE PUSHING FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO REINSTATE AND ...

For too long, California’s English learners — and the teachers guiding their education — have had to adapt to math curricula and textbooks that were not created with them in mind. Here in Fresno, we ...

When I was in ninth grade, my English teacher assigned selections from S.I. Hayakawa’s “Language in Thought and Action.” My friends and I were initially baffled by his concepts. Still, we eventually ...

SEATTLE — Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards today as draft new national guidelines were released. Supporters of the ...

For some third-graders, 100 minutes of math instruction might get tiring — but not in teacher Sahar Shehaiber’s classroom at Hometown Elementary School in the south suburbs. On a recent afternoon, a ...

Delaware students made incremental gains and losses this year in both English and math, and mostly lost ground in science, according to results of standardized testing released Thursday. The results ...