The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build on English learners’ strengths. Seventy-seven percent of 8th-grade ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education.

America’s crisis of reading instruction is by now well-known. But have you checked on your kid’s math skills lately? When it comes to math in schools, there’s one thing on which teachers, students, ...