The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. BERWYN, Ill. — In ...

How to support your children in home-school lessons that may be outside your skill set. By Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer Nearly all schoolwork is now homework, and many parents are struggling to ...

Our world needs inventive thinkers who will work to solve the biggest problems we face today in every sphere of life–medicine, education, sanitation, environment, economy, and others. Learning math is ...

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but it’s a tough job. An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...