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 ...
This post is by Monica Alatorre, Senior Manager for Development & Communications at Envision Education. The scene: A typical traditional math class in America. The players: A student who is an English ...
Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...
When elementary students experience math through multiple modes, they begin to see it as a language of design, rhythm, and ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Teaching preschool children simple math-related vocabulary and concepts, such as "more," "a lot," "some" and "fewer," improves their mathematical skills, according to a new a ...
Imagine just beginning to grasp English as your second language and then being asked to prove your proficiency in science and math on daunting state tests written in English. On the test, you come ...
Rob Manning / OPB Researchers at the New America think tank have named Portland's David Douglas School District a national model for language instruction. "The David Douglas instructional shift that ...
A new paper shows ChatGPT-5 emerging as a tool that helps scientists test ideas, navigate literature and refine experiments ...
This is what Assistant Professor Yemimah King discovered in her research on how parents' word usage is related to children's ...
The Understanding Language team at Stanford University has just released its first major collection of common core instructional resources in math meant for teachers who work with English-language ...