Yet the education establishment would rather dumb down the curriculum so everyone passes. Mr. Moore is an economics ...

China's highly selective educational pipeline develops a narrow slice of students to an extremely high level. America has ...

The apparent solution among the education establishment is not to challenge kids to stretch their minds and hit the books but ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy ...

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

Connecting The Dots works to improve how science and mathematics are taught in schools. It emphasises experiential learning, ...

Two local schools have been ranked the top-performing schools in a national list, alongside meeting above expectations in several categories. According to the U.S. News and World Report High School ...

Many educators contend standardized testing is outdated, ineffective and inequitable, but standardized-objective testing is still the best way to determine if someone knows what negative six minus ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (NSF SBE) has launched the Collaboratory to Advance ...

Some people think 2+2=5... and they might be right. A statistician explains how abstract math can have real-world limitations ...

Small-group instruction has been a popular component of K-3 literacy education for many years. However, there are inevitable ...