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Parents and teachers know that reading to their children in preschool and kindergarten is important. But how can parents and teachers support young children’s mathematics knowledge? One often ...

Theoretical mathematician Lauren K. Williams is the second woman in Harvard’s history to get tenure in the math department ...

A new dashboard shows K-8 national and state-level math and reading achievement trends pre- and post-pandemic.

"I was a landscape architect who turned to a life of crime," jokes Robert Cheetham, founder of Azavea, a software development and research firm based in Philadelphia. Fourteen years ago, he was one of ...

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have ...

High levels of total screen time in young Canadian children are associated with lower reading and math test scores in ...