The Hechinger Report covers the reasons behind the initiative to have students take algebra in eighth grade, as well as its ...

Katie Welch, a seventh-grade math teacher, was named West Central Regional Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education. The state board of education also honored other educators ...

New Mexico spends less on math programs than on other disciplines, and long has had lousy results in math education. Now Senate Education Committee Chair Bill Soules is pushing to change that equation ...

From the first woman to win a Nobel Prize to the discoverer of jumping genes, here are some of the women who have made major ...