Elementary school teachers in this country, by and large, are generalists. That means they’re required to teach everything—math, science, language arts, history, you name it, regardless of how ...
Would students take a stronger interest in math if they knew that an ancient African bone (from 20,000 B.C.) might be one of the world’s oldest known counting tools? Or that the work of Muslim ...
According to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 21 states and the District of Columbia saw increases at the fourth-grade level, eight of these statistically significant.