Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In early February, seventh grade math teacher Jamie Gallimore tried something new: She watched ...

“Well, that’s not how I learned it,” proclaimed the person sitting next to me. The comment is a familiar one for a math teacher, as I hear it all the time from students and family members. But on this ...

In a post-Covid world, we can no longer assume that a student’s age and mathematical experiences line up in previously expected ways. Indeed, they may not even be close. It’s a tension that’s always ...

Benjamin Franklin Elementary in Connecticut overhauled the way it taught — and the way it ran the classroom. Every minute counted. By Sarah Mervosh MERIDEN, Conn. — It’s just after lunchtime, and Dori ...

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Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...