In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

The way we approach education, particularly in mathematics, has changed a lot over the past few years ... simplifying a range of mathematical concepts from factoring polynomials to solving ...

Teachers report thinking that if girls do better in math than boys, it is probably because of their innate ability and effort. But they also report that when boys do well in math, it is more ...

Poverty and inequality are inextricably linked. In India, top one percent’s share in wealth was as high as 40 percent. Regarding income inequality, the top percent scrapped around 22 percent of ...

Income inequality can lead to slower or less sustainable economic growth, while redistribution of income, when measured, does not hurt and can even help an economy, IMF staff found in a research ...

Grade-level students can also be harmed if teachers try to accommodate weaker students by making the material easier. But if the heterogeneous class avoided those pitfalls, the new math placement ...

In the last two decades, Uruguay has done an excellent job reducing poverty in the country. The percentage of the population living in precarious conditions decreased from approximately 33 percent ...

But a relatively new area of research has shifted attention to educator bias. Studies have found that teachers often perceive ...

The percentage of District 65 students who met expectations in English Language Arts (ELA) jumped by 8.4 percentage points on ...

Robinson was awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. His Nobel Prize-winning research was on "how institutions are formed and affect prosperity ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Third grade students participate in an ... the English ...