16+ hour, 50+ min ago  (549+ words) MYSORE, India " Employers around the world share a familiar complaint: Universities often don't prepare students for fast-changing job demands. Too many new graduates need extra preparation before they're workforce-ready." In India, rather than waiting for higher education to catch up,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (570+ words) 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 how much better. What remains far more elusive is why. A new study…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago  (1098+ words) Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning." "When I talk to my students, I want them to understand it," she said of a concept like the Pythagorean…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (636+ words) For 23 years, I've taught high school math. And for 23 years, I've been told by people that they either are a "math person" or they are not." I get it: Math isn't easy. Movies and TV shows make it look effortless…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (887+ words) Support nonprofit news. Monthly donations doubled for 12 months! As a teacher, I heard it all the time: "I'm not a math person." I would be in line at the grocery store, wearing a math T-shirt one of my students got…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (804+ words) Math anxiety isn't just about feeling nervous before a math test. It's been well-known for decades that students who are anxious about math tend to do worse on math tests and in math classes. But recently, some of us who…...