Alabama is the only state where 4th-grade math scores are higher now than they were in 2019, before the pandemic. This is the ...

In almost every state, student achievement in math is below pre-pandemic levels. Alabama was the only state where fourth-graders' average math scores surpassed 2019. What are they doing differently?

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 ...

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.

TRACY BUTTS: Two-digit by two-digit multiplication. And you're going to build it, OK? TURNER: Instead of relying on worksheets and rote memorization, district leaders wanted to make math more ...