While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

A study published in Nature reveals that Indian kids working in markets excel at mental math but struggle with academic math ...

Working children do badly in abstract math because their mastery of algorithms taught in schools is poor. Conversely, non-working children know only strategies taught in classroom ...

A study by MIT economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

Alaska’s 4th and 8th graders scored below the national average and showed no improvement in 2024, amid a national decline in reading proficiency.

It's this idea that if you bring these two worlds together, you get an outcome that actually is much greater." ...

In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills: They can quickly perform a range of calculations to complete transactions. But as a new study shows, these kids often perform ...

Topeka USD 501 is preparing to implement a program called "TeachRock," which focuses on educating students about modern music ...

If you think those facts are a coincidence, they’re not. Research has long shown that poverty and educational outcomes are inextricably linked. As poverty goes up, student performance goes down, and ...