This post is by Monica Alatorre, Senior Manager for Development & Communications at Envision Education. The scene: A typical traditional math class in America. The players: A student who is an English ...

Tonya Clarke’s vision for math instruction in Georgia’s Clayton County public schools sounds simple: She wants students to think, reason, and analyze in order to solve real-world problems. But putting ...

New longitudinal research from Finland has found that children's early spatial skills and knowledge of written letters, rather than oral language skills, predict competence in math. The study included ...

When: Hempfield education and programs, policy, personnel, and legal school board committee meeting, June 15. What happened: District officials proposed updates to the secondary math course and ...

Marion Nash is an educational psychologist and Jackie Lowe a speech and language therapist. 'Circle time sessions' is a structured programme of 36 sessions with a group of six to eight reception ...

English Language Learners (ELLs) at risk for math disabilities (MD) are challenged in solving word problems for numerous reasons such as (a) learning English as a second language, (b) limited ...

Alice Sullivan works on the 1970 British Cohort Study which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the ...

As taxpayers, parents and educators debate the value of public preschool for every child, a new study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers finds for the first time that middle-class children -- not ...