The committee’s charge was to develop a set of criteria with which to evaluate NAEP achievement levels. We were asked to address the question: To what extent are the NAEP achievement levels reasonable ...

Mathematics education is in crisis: A third of all schoolchildren end up in remedial math courses, and the level of interest in the subject is at an all-time low. This is a result, in part, of schools ...

Excellence in math and science is often cited as the driving force behind U.S. innovation and competitiveness in the 21st century global economy. Yet, an EPE Research Center analysis of data from the ...

Tunisia, Argentina, Brazil and Thailand are home to some of the world’s most math-phobic 15-year-olds. Levels of “mathematics anxiety” in those countries were the highest among the nations tracked by ...

A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' ...