Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House Correspondent for "The Daily Signal." Send her an email. Math can oppress students of color due to the inequitable system it was developed under, ...

A Vanderbilt professor delivered a lecture earlier this month at a major mathematician meeting that described college math education as "white" and "cisheteropatriarchal." Luis Leyva, assistant ...

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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 ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

Multiplication and long division rarely get pep rallies. But Michaela Sicuranza, a 5th grade teacher at Sinking Springs Elementary, in York, Pa., thinks building an exciting, competitive identity ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

Heather Smith, the 2024 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Teacher of the Year, will headline this year’s Braswell Lecture at the University of Mount Olive. Scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 27, at ...

The University of Mount Olive will host its annual Braswell Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7:00 p.m. in the Southern Bank Auditorium. This year’s speaker is Heather Smith, the 2024 Burroughs Wellcome ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

Nine math teachers nominated for The Tennessean's third Teacher of the Week poll. This inaugural poll launched in February 2026 honoring the best educational assistants. Math teachers help their ...