In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, ...

Alabama is the only state where 4th-grade math scores are higher now than they were in 2019, before the pandemic. This is the story of how the... How Alabama students went from last place to ...

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.

Five years ago, the pandemic brought K-12 education grinding to a halt. The latest Nation's Report Card shows, on average, students still haven't made up for all the learning they missed in math, but ...