Curing ‘math anxiety’? How Hurricane High is helping math students move beyond fears and build lifelong problem-solving skills

A nontraditional math instruction strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow ...
Education Week

Study: Struggling Math Students Need Direct Instruction, Not ‘Fun’ Activities

This post originally appeared on the Inside School Research blog. First grade teachers facing a class full of students struggling with math were more likely to turn to music, movement, and ...
Opinion
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Another viewpoint: For too many students in American schools, math isn’t adding up

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...
The Hill

Curriculum changes to counter learning loss create necessity of bringing teachers up to speed

In the fight against students’ learning loss, numerous states and school districts have implemented new curriculum in reading and math, bringing fresh urgency to another important issue that needs to ...
The Conversation

Direct Instruction and the teaching of reading

Bill Louden was a member of the Rowe Review into the teaching of reading in Australia. Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused particularly on the ...