Allonda Hawkins said the way her children are expected to do math is “100 percent different” from the way she learned. “There are terms that I’ve never heard before, like arrays. It’s very foreign to ...

FLORISSANT • The 40 parents sat in child-sized chairs inside the library of Barrington Elementary School and watched intently as a fourth-grade teacher wrote a problem on the smartboard. Then she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New teachers, new schedules, new curriculum. As students get back in the classroom, they may find some of the learning materials have changed. After more than a decade, Common ...

AL.com’s Education Lab team is supported by individual donors and grants. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter. Alabama Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, is backing a plan to improve ...

Alabama lawmakers are set to take a vote on a bill that supporters say will improve the state’s standing in math achievement in K-12 schools. The bill, called the Alabama Numeracy Act, is sponsored by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustrative Mathematics was established in 2011 at the University of Arizona as a means to assist schools in adopting the Common ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.