In California and across the country, English learners are too frequently an afterthought. Though they are one of the largest student groups — California has more than 1 million students who are ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

For some third-graders, 100 minutes of math instruction might get tiring — but not in teacher Sahar Shehaiber’s classroom at Hometown Elementary School in the south suburbs. On a recent afternoon, a ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. If grades are telling the story, math classes at the University are more difficult ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math concepts more clearly than English, making it ...

At City College of San Francisco, one of the country’s largest public universities, thousands of struggling students pour into remedial English and math classes and then the vast majority disappear, ...

Duolingo CTO and cofounder Severin Hacker. At Duolingo’s 2023 Duocon, the East Liberty-based edtech company unveiled Duolingo Music, its new music course that will instruct users in sight-reading, ...