What do you get when you add up more than a billion dollars, plus a foundational but often overshadowed K-12 subject, and multiply it by the influence of the biggest player in K-12 education ...

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

Just as the Covid crisis exploded last year, we called on philanthropy to increase giving and do it quickly to mitigate the worst of the social and economic harm unfolding before our eyes. We knew ...

Nationally, 86% of white 4 th graders were at least on grade level in mathematics. Only 55% of Black students could say the same. This staggering disparity is an issue the Gates Foundation has long ...

Lee Fang is an investigative reporter at leefang.com. Jim Simons’ mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into a legendary financier whose algorithmic ...