Disparities in advanced math and science skills among different racial backgrounds emerge early on in a student’s development, a new study has found. The study, conducted by researchers from ...

According to the latest PISA global mathematics results, students in this Southeast Asian country perform the best among the 81 economies that took part in the assessment.

Regarding T.C. O’Brien’s Commentary about the ongoing “math wars” between reformers and anti-reformers (“Mathematics and the Pure in Heart,” Feb. 28, 2007): It’s ironic that many of the Asian ...

WASHINGTON --American schoolchildren do better than people think in math and science, but Asian students still dominate in math and have gained ground in science, an international study found. Kids in ...

Pursuing equity for historically disadvantaged groups should not come at the cost of denying others the right to achieve. Yet in practice the drive for equity is having a leveling effect – not just ...

CHESTNUT HILL, MA -- Students from Asian countries were top performers in math and science at both the fourth and eighth grade levels, according to the most recent reports of the Trends in ...

Irvine, Calif., May 21, 2007 -- Compared to math teachers in the high-achieving nations of Hong Kong and Japan, teachers in the United States offer less of certain supports that could help students ...