This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deidre Kelly. It has been edited for length and clarity. This is my 14th year teaching sixth-grade math, and I enjoy it just as much as I did when ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Are you a “math person”? It’s a question that gets settled at an early age: Most students have made up their mind about whether they identify as a math person by the time they’re in middle school, ...

Model standards produced by right-leaning education advocates helped spark a battle that could spread to other states ...

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