A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Archana Gilravi is the senior vice president of Lean In Girls, overseeing a leadership program that empowers girls aged 11 to 15 to build confidence, reject limiting stereotypes and become leaders in ...

Ms. Arthur understood that she would have to excel to prove the value of educating a daughter. “I was very disciplined,” she ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...