Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disparities in advanced math and science skills among different racial backgrounds emerge early on in a student’s development, a ...

Regarding T.C. O’Brien’s Commentary about the ongoing “math wars” between reformers and anti-reformers (“Mathematics and the Pure in Heart,” Feb. 28, 2007): It’s ironic that many of the Asian ...

What is that high-performing Asian nations get right, when it comes to math teaching? A pair of researchers have explored that question in a new study, which examines the standards of Singapore, Hong ...

WASHINGTON --American schoolchildren do better than people think in math and science, but Asian students still dominate in math and have gained ground in science, an international study found. Kids in ...

Pursuing equity for historically disadvantaged groups should not come at the cost of denying others the right to achieve. Yet in practice the drive for equity is having a leveling effect – not just ...

Irvine, Calif., May 21, 2007 -- Compared to math teachers in the high-achieving nations of Hong Kong and Japan, teachers in the United States offer less of certain supports that could help students ...

CHESTNUT HILL, MA -- Students from Asian countries were top performers in math and science at both the fourth and eighth grade levels, according to the most recent reports of the Trends in ...