Forbes

It’s Time To Change The Math Calculus: How The U.S. Can Finally Get Math Education Right

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...
EdSurge

How Are U.S. Students Doing in Math? About as Well as Their Parents Did in 1995

This article is part of the collection: Data Bytes: Parsing Education Data Into Snack-Size Servings. The results are in — and they’re not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.
AOL

U.S. math scores have declined since COVID-19 and states strategize to improve proficiency

Math scores of students in the United States have seen a historic downturn since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, with a 7-point drop among 9-year-olds. This 2022 finding marks the first-ever decline ...
Education Week

Do Future Teachers Have Math Anxiety? Their University Instructors Think So

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Fear of math can outweigh promise of higher rewards

Math anxiety is far from uncommon, but too often, those who dread the subject simply avoid it. Research from the University of Chicago offers new evidence for the link between math anxiety and ...