Get out your timer and number two pencil to see if your arithmetic skills from grade school are still intact.

Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors by 2027, saying that the test-optional policy has created a widening ...

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University of California professors warn of declining college math skills, linking it to test-optional admissions and ...

Math-preparation gaps are so wide that faculty members across the University of California system are having to reteach ...

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A student walks down a hallway as several signs indicating students are taking STAAR exams are displayed at Arnold Elementary School in San Antonio on April 2, 2026. Editorial Fellow Over the past ten ...

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...

Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...

(TNS) — Some New York City school kids were locked out of their state exams on Wednesday as the testing system faced significant disruptions. The city’s public schools were scheduled to administer ...