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Brits ban calculators in primary school
Britain will ban calculators in elementary school to give children time to learn arithmetic. Schools minister Nick Gibb said: “Without a solid grounding in arithmetic and early maths in primary school,...
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U.S. adults lag in numeracy, literacy
U.S. adults are dumber than the average human, proclaims the New York Post. A new international study doesn’t quite say that. But it’s not great news. “In math, reading and problem solving using...
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The (not so bright) hopes of the future
In problem-solving, literacy and numeracy, 16- to 24-year-old Americans rank at or near the bottom on the OECD’s new international survey of adult literacy skills, reports the New Yorker. These young...
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Schooling Ain’t Learning
Schooling is expanding rapidly in the Third World, writes Lant Pritchett in The Rebirth of Education. But the subtitle – Schooling Ain’t Learning — tells the real story, writes Bryan Caplan on EconLog....
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U.S. millennials: Schooled but not skilled
America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future is depressing and alarming, writes Fordham’s Robert Pondiscio. Many Americans 16 to 34 years old “lack the skills required for higher-level...
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Algebra II vs. ‘numeracy’
Teach “numeracy” for 21st-century citizens instead of Algebra II, argues political scientist Andrew Hacker in The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions. The algebra-to-calculus track is a waste of time...
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U.S. grads are weak in math
U.S. college graduates lack numeracy skills compared to graduates in other countries, concludes the 2013-14 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. Overall, U.S. adults met the...
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