North Carolina lawmakers could overhaul high school math requirements and make it mandatory for students to pass a U.S. history test to get a diploma. The N.C. House voted 69-43 on Wednesday to pass a ...

The Sarasota County School Board approved 20 new instructional textbooks for classroom use in unanimous votes Tuesday. The textbooks, social studies and math books for students ranging from ...

Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college opportunities and even on their entire careers. The pressure to reach Calculus by a ...

Last year, the Stanford Undergraduate Admissions Office changed its high school math curriculum recommendations for prospective applicants, emphasizing conceptual math courses such as algebra and ...

Choosing high school courses can feel high-stakes—and for good reason. According to a survey from the National Association for College Admission Counseling, nearly 87% of colleges believe curriculum ...

San Gabriel High School teacher Leah Ulloa Ruiz teaches a data science lesson to calculate the likelihood of whether men or women will be victims in horror movies. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times ...

HURRICANE, Washington County — Americans have a complicated relationship with math. Studies reveal that a vast majority of adults living in the United States believe math skills are essential — but ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Amid the growing ...

Kids take SC READY tests in ELA and math at the end of each year between third and eight grade, and in science in fourth and ...

For 14 hours in early March, a team of five seniors from York Community High School competed virtually in an international math challenge, up against more than 600 other math teams, many from elite ...

Science one semester, social studies the next. Or social studies and science alternating every other day. These are familiar schedules for the two subjects in elementary schools, where professional ...

Two New Orleans high school students recently attended a conference where they proved an “impossible” math problem by using trigonometry. For more than 2,000 years, mathematicians worldwide have ...