Teachers report thinking that if girls do better in math than boys, it is probably because of their innate ability and effort. But they also report that when boys do well in math, it is more likely ...

The teaching profession is one of the most female-dominated in the United States. Among elementary school teachers, 89 percent are women, and in kindergarten, that number is almost 97 percent. Many ...

Some of the biggest challenges in teaching math aren’t about the numbers and operations themselves, but students’ attitudes toward them. Getting students to think deeply about problems, persevere ...

Black male educators made up 1.3% of all K-12 teachers in 2020-2021 school year. When educator Curtis L. Lewis noticed he was the only Black, male teacher in a district of 20 elementary schools, he ...

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk receives funding from the NSF, IES, and Herman & Raseij Math Initiative. Ian Thacker receives funding from the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ...

A study by DonorsChoose, titled Unique Impacts, Unique Burdens: Insights into the Black Male Educator Experience, finds that Black male teachers are the most engaged with their students but the ...

DECATUR - Brent Damery's enthusiasm is infectious. At South Shores School, while students play a relay-style basketball game, Damery, 22, is yelling encouragement to teammates, scrambling to his feet ...

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, ...

America’s education system is facing a critical challenge — not just from teacher shortages, plummeting test scores or funding cuts, but from a deeper, systemic issue: the severe underrepresentation ...

(TNS) — Matthew Karabinos was hesitant to try ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool, when it first came out in 2022. The sixth-grade math teacher was concerned about what the technology ...

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 ...

COLORADO — Math can be challenging for many students. Recognizing the need for additional math support, the Colorado Department of Education partnered with 18 teachers statewide to develop a free ...