Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a teacher were spent sitting at an uncomfortable cafeteria table, watching someone slog through a PowerPoint about strategies for classroom ...

Amid falling student scores and renewed debates about how the subject should be taught, math is in the spotlight once again. The pandemic, which affected student learning across the board, had ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Racial Justice in Early Math project aims to educate teachers and provide resources to help educators combat racial bias in math instruction. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

What kind of education best helps students learn math? In the province of Ontario, the most recent provincial standardized results (2024–25) show modest improvement in elementary mathematics ...

Teachers of Tomorrow, the nation’s leading alternative teacher certification program, is proud to announce Arilene Gaxiola as the 2026 Teachers of Tomorrow National Teacher of the Year. This national ...

In Jennifer McDougald’s classroom at Jerger Elementary, solving a math problem is only part of the lesson. The real impact ...

River Trail teacher Josh Gonzalez uses hands-on agriculture lessons and real-world learning to keep students engaged in class ...