As students across California continue to struggle with basic math and reading, one school district has been spending ...

Two University of Iowa faculty members have won funding from the National Institutes of Health to study why some prematurely born children struggle with math and how early support could improve their ...

March 20, 2026 - Torrance, CA – Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi's (D–Torrance) Assembly Bill 1631, which requires children to complete one year of kindergarten before enrolling in first grade, passed the ...

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Amid gamified lessons, video-directed read-alouds and assigned work on tablets for students as young as age four, at least 16 states have introduced legislation in 2026 to reevaluate screen time or ...

New Mexico wants to make sure young students have grasped the basics of mathematics before they face harder concepts such as algebra, and lawmakers have passed a bill to make sure those who struggle ...

Our story about the use of devices in the early grade for both academic work and break time drew a flood of responses from readers.

Although most of them were still in diapers when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, today’s early elementary students didn’t make it through the global catastrophe unscathed. A new analysis from NWEA, an ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...