The nation's students are getting better at math, but their reading performance is mixed, with slight progress in grade four and a slip backward in grade eight. The 2005 scores come from the National ...

For many families, reading is as much a part of summer as cookouts and camp. But as the weather warms, math is often banished along with mittens and sweaters. And that’s a problem. Studies of “summer ...

Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I found myself dealing with how to multiply fractions as ...