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 ...

Even to English-speaking students, getting introduced to new math vocabulary can be like learning a foreign language. English as a Second Language and math teachers at Memorial Middle School have made ...

Cindy Garcia has been a bilingual educator for 17 years and is currently a districtwide specialist for bilingual/ESL mathematics. She is active on Twitter @CindyGarciaTX and on her blog: One of the ...

Delfina Cheung was a teenager when she realized she had a future in teaching. Educational options in the Philippines were slim for her younger sister, who has Down syndrome. So Cheung spent hours ...

A Los Angeles Unified middle school student studies during a seventh- and eighth-grade English and Social Studies class in spring 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles public school ...

Washington students are posting some of their best test scores in math and English in quite some time, reaching pre-pandemic ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders ...