A column by Virginia Warfield of the University of Washington suggests that the rising storm of criticism of Washington state K-12 math education is based on myths ("Many math 'truths' are in fact ...

I love debates, as frequent readers of this column know. I learn the most when I am listening to two well-informed advocates of opposite positions going at each other. I have held several debates here ...

Across the nation, kids are heading back to school. It’s an exciting time. I remember both the joy and the nervousness that came with my now twin 13-year-olds' first starting school. In fact, one day ...

Boys take more math classes than girls, right? Wrong, according to a new study that found that female high school students take as many math courses as males. And they are more likely to do so if ...

Math can be a difficult subject. In school, I remember being fairly good at math but it seemed a lot of my fellow students were not. There were times when I helped to tutor other students in the class ...

Should we be worried that young girls are not pursuing math-related careers at the same rate as young men? After all, in our technological era, many of tomorrow’s well-paying jobs will require ...

I'll keep it brief this week, so we can enjoy the holiday weekend. There's not much to say anyway. The Dow is down for its fourth straight week and the other major indices are not doing much better.

Lecia Barker doesn’t buy the pervasive argument that girls learn math and science differently than boys do, and that the difference ultimately turns off girls to these types of careers. In fact, today ...