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. They ...

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 ...

Students use counters to help model multiplication. Math teacher Diane Laney hard at work in her third-grade classroom at Ider High school, which serves grades K-12. Students use counters to help ...

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.

West played a crucial role in building a new curriculum roadmap for DeKalb's math teachers. (Charity Rachelle for NPR) West then turned to what was happening inside classrooms. She worried that ...

The latest Nation's Report Card shows, on average, students still haven't made up for all the learning they missed in math, but there is an exception - Alabama. NPR's Cory Turner went there to ...

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