Jack Beresford is a Newsweek Senior Internet Culture & Trends Reporter, based in London, UK. His focus is reporting on trending topics on the Internet, he covers viral stories from around the ...

Teachers have limited preservice training in how to approach key math concepts and links while differentiating across such a wide range of student needs. But trying to cover too many concepts without ...

This means more than half of students did not meet grade-level benchmarks when they ... a little more than the state as a whole in math — 2 percentage points — but it also started out lower ...

Which means, instead of multiplying 12 x 9, they multiplied 10 x 9 and 2 x 9, both a little ... Many early-grade teachers don't get a lot of training in math – and maybe don't feel comfortable ...

Today, the assessments in math and reading are given every two years to a broad sample of students in fourth and eighth grades. In fourth grade, the average math score ticked up slightly compared ...