I started teaching special education in 1970, prior to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, or PL 94-142. I welcomed the enactment of that legislation, because it forced school ...

After months of work and disappointing results on its last round of goals, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday voted 8-1 for literacy and math goals designed to shape the next six years of ...

New York school districts will soon begin revamping math instruction under a new law aimed at improving test scores — but the ...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board took a first stab Tuesday at new five-year academic goals designed to prepare more students for success in school and adult life. Members spent almost five hours ...

With school recently starting across many parts of the nation, it's time to think about how you plan to help your child -- or the other kids in your life -- succeed in math this year. But what about ...

In Erin Bryan’s 5th grade math classroom, TGIF takes on a whole new meaning. Fridays don’t just herald the coming weekend. They’re also game days. “They all come in here on Fridays pumped,” said Bryan ...

A few years ago, third-grade teacher Laura Metrano considered herself strictly a language-arts person. “I am a writer and a reader,” she said during a break in her school day at Springhurst Elementary ...

Think about the so-called "story problems" you studied in algebra and other math classes. How many of them dealt with, say, two trains which, no matter how far they traveled, could never catch your ...

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) - Jonesboro students at Math and Science Magnet School started off the month of September by planting a goal tree outside of the school. This is not just a regular tree, however.