The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

The future elementary school teachers that Mark Montgomery works with at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, share a common fear: Most of them are “extremely anxious” about math.

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 ...

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also ...

Two recent studies show that K-12 teachers’ nagging ignorance of fundamentals has contributed to historic declines in U.S. math performance. The National Council on Teacher Quality reported Tuesday ...

Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools from Trisha Powell Crain: It isn’t clear if a $90 million program designed to recruit and retain math and science ...

Leona Penner, who has taught a select, high-level math course for more than four decades, will retire at the end of the school year -- and "Penner math" will retire with her. Penner began teaching ...