What happens when a young student gets a low math score? A parent may say: “Math has never been your strength.” A teacher might write “careless” beside a calculation. Those words may seem harmless.

Teachers’ expectations can have a profound effect on their students’ motivation and academic achievement, a finding long known in education research. But new evidence suggests that without details on ...

Feedback is essential to student learning, but giving detailed feedback to every student on every piece of work they submit can be time-consuming, especially in an online course. In in-person courses, ...

In the late 1980s, the Biosphere 2 project sealed a team of scientists inside a self-sustaining miniature world. Their goal was to see if a closed system could support human life, serving as a ...

Lindblom Math and Science Academy students sat in a semicircle with some of the University of Illinois System’s top officials, notebooks in front of them and pens in hand. The goal — a discussion in ...

In a step toward giving math the attention early literacy has gotten, the Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would require schools to assess the math capabilities of all students in ...