Ann Ellefson, NDDPI director of academic support, says the grant will help progress a continuing effort by the state to bring ...

Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

For the next three years, every superintendent needs to focus on improving middle school math. Performance on California’s 2022 Smarter Balanced scores dropped 6.5% in math and 4% in English language ...

Northside Middle School eighth grade math teacher Amber Benson reviews a slope exercise. She and co-teacher Ruby Voss said they try to make students stakeholders in each other’s success. Credit: ...

As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in ...

Palo Alto Board of Education members and some parents were largely enthused about district leadership’s plan to overhaul middle school mathematics over the next several years, while other parents ...

NYC Solves has faced criticism from educators for assuming kids have mastered skills, leaving some lost and frustrated.

But the bigger point is how foundational these stories are to how we narrate struggle and resilience. Middle school teaches it to show that human drama hasn’t changed—just the outfits. Monsters, ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Algebra I will return to San Francisco middle schools, much to the relief of parents who've fought for a decade to bring it ...

The teacher licensure program for middle school mathematics is an innovative new track for nonmath majors interested in teaching mathematics in the middle grades 6–8, an area of high demand across ...

The Middle School Mathematics Licensure Program is an innovative new track for non-math majors interested in teaching mathematics in the middle grades 6-8, an area of high demand across Colorado ...