Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools: For Briana Oliver, teaching math isn’t all about the numbers. It’s about relationships, too. “One student came in ...

There’s a scene in the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver," where high school math teacher Jaime Escalante (played by Edward James Olmos) argues with the head of the school’s math program about the ...

A blend of family attitudes, cultural ideas, and frustration often lead students to believe that math ability is a fixed trait like eye color, teachers say. They believe they are either born with the ...

Catherine Good has experienced stereotype threat herself, although she didn’t know it at the time. She started her academic career in pure math, expecting to get a Ph.D. But somewhere along the way ...

SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Selma Unified School District is celebrating gains in academic performance. Seventh grade math teacher Eric Garza whips around the classroom from group to group. He chimes ...

This is the second in a series of two posts, the first of which can be found here. Yesterday I showed that, during the pandemic, changes in achievement gaps for US 15 year olds on Program for ...