It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

As parents across the state open the envelopes containing their children’s scores on the new Smarter Balanced assessments administered last spring, only a third of them will see that their children ...

When it comes to how American students are recovering from the pandemic, it's a tale of two subjects. States across the country have made some progress in math over the past two years, while in ...

They say standardized math test scores are an objective measure of students’ preparedness for college STEM courses.

I reported recently on CD that high school boys outperformed girls on the 2015 SAT math test with an average score of 527 points (55 th percentile) compared to the average score of 496 for high school ...

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

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Students from across Salem County faced off Wednesday in an annual mathematics competition. The Salem County Math Showcase ...

One simple rule can help solve any complex equation. Here's a hint: all it takes is a catchy acronym.