Some 60 percent of new community college students aren't ready for college-level classes. Those placed in basic math or reading rarely make it out of the remedial sequence, much less to a degree. Do they belong in college?

Overwhelmed with students who need years of remediation, some Texas...

The United States isn't a high achiever in math education, concluded Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson and Ludger Woessmann in Education Next.

No fewer than 30 of the 56 other countries that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) math test, including most of the world's industrialized nations,...

Seventy percent of California's degree-seeking community college students failed to earn a credential or degree -- or to transfer to four-year universities -- within six years, concludes a new study. Most students drop out quickly, reports the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy and the

How much math do we really need in everyday life? Most people get by happily with very little, writes G.V. Ramanathan, professor emeritus of mathematics, statistics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in a Washington Post column.

Unlike literature, history, politics and music, math...

If schools discipline more blacks or Hispanics than white students, federal officials warn they'll use "disparate impact analysis" to charge civil rights violations, reports Education Week.

Under "disparate impact," schools can be in violation if discipline policies affect one racial group more than others, even if there's no evidence...

"We need to accept reality," writes Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post blog, Answer Sheet.

Strauss says,

The strongest predictor of student success in school has long been family income and parents' education level. So we can applaud and shower with attention the students and teachers and...