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 ...

I recently had a fascinating discussion with an 11-year-old member of a group receiving prizes for excelling in math tests offered by state and national testing bodies. The youngest of a large number ...

Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler spends a lot of time worrying about how math education in the United States traumatizes kids. Recently, a colleague’s 7-year-old came home from school and ...