College classes are hard. As an agriculture communications student back in the day I remember wondering why I needed to learn certain skills — like advanced math. I mean, my communications focus was ...

Jennifer Williams, center, teaches math at Tasby Middle School in Dallas, TX, on Sep 15, 2023. Credit: Jason Janik/Dallas Morning News The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...