The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Math education is ...

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

Ahead of the 2024 school year, PS's The Educators is spotlighting 24 public school teachers around the country who are making a difference. Shelby Lattimore is a third-grade math and science teacher ...

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

What kind of education best helps students learn math? In the province of Ontario, the most recent provincial standardized results (2024–25) show modest improvement in elementary mathematics ...

An AP Statistics teacher decided to ask his students what they wanted to learn about. The results are a curriculum that makes math feel relevant to students' interests. In a high-poverty school in San ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...