Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Los Angeles Unified middle school student studies during a seventh- and eighth-grade English and Social Studies class in spring ...

SEATTLE – Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released. Supporters of the ...

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Megan Sommers projects her computer screen for her class of English language learners on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, at Taylor Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill. (Photo by Anastasia ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform - and more rigorous - standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released. Supporters of the project led ...

The government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose”, education leaders have warned. Politicians have been urged to “rethink” how young people are ...

When I was in ninth grade, my English teacher assigned selections from S.I. Hayakawa’s “Language in Thought and Action.” My friends and I were initially baffled by his concepts. Still, we eventually ...

GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped after the pass rate fell to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...

For some third-graders, 100 minutes of math instruction might get tiring — but not in teacher Sahar Shehaiber’s classroom at Hometown Elementary School in the south suburbs. On a recent afternoon, a ...