iPads in the classroom provide 20 percent jump in math scores, study says
After a yearlong pilot program, initiated by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in California, it was found that students' math scores jumped 20 percent compared with classrooms that used traditional paper textbooks. (Credit: Apple) HMH Fuse: Algebra I was instituted at Amelia Earhart Middle School in the Riverside Unified School District as the world's first iPad-driven algebra curriculum ...

iPads in classroom provide 20 percent jump in math scores, study says
After a yearlong pilot program in California initiated by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the math scores of students using iPads jumped 20 percent compared with classrooms that used traditional paper textbooks. (Credit: Apple) HMH Fuse: Algebra I was instituted at Amelia Earhart Middle School in the Riverside Unified School District as the world's first iPad-driven algebra curriculum ...

How to Solve the Teacher Pay Puzzle
Should teachers be paid more or less? The answer is: both. REUTERS/Julie Gordon Arguments about how to pay public school teachers have an unfortunate habit of focusing on big, blanket solutions. Unions ...

A portrait of the misunderstood math major
One of my best friends from high school is a math major at Rice University named Nick. Sometimes we would joke that if we could find a third friend going for a chemistry degree, we could combine our majors and conquer the world.

Wong and Fitchburg charter official ready to defend school
FITCHBURG -- Supporters of the North Central Charter Essential School were prepared to travel to Malden this morning to ask the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to renew the school's five-year charter with no conditions.