To be included in the Best High Schools for STEM rankings, a public high school first had to be very highly ranked in the 2025-2026 U.S. News Best High Schools rankings. The top 2,000 nationally ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ready or not. Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior ...

The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

Leanna Pitsoulakis took a lap around her freshmen honors math class at Carl Sandburg High School, scanning the work spread across each student’s desk before returning to the front of the room with a ...

This video is no longer available. After students eagerly entered Amanda Blevins’ classroom at Mosaic Elementary on Thursday afternoon, she returned a graded assignment and then shifted their ...

The most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often dubbed the “Nation’s Report Card,” reveal a concerning decline in academic performance among 12th-grade ...