Newly appointed state superintendent Michael Sentance, during his first work session, warned the Alabama Board of Education of a crisis in math education. "We're in trouble," he said. The numbers he ...

As education leaders and policymakers across the country look for solutions to the nation’s math crisis, they should turn their attention to a state that is too often ignored: Alabama. This progress ...

The Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill aimed at improving the state's performance on standardized math testing. The bill, known as the Numeracy Act, would set minimums for the ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...