A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card.

BUSINESS Black Girls Love Math teaches culturally-conscious curriculum to address racial and gender inequality in mathematics by Megan Sayles AFRO Staff Writer July 5, 2022

And the struggles aren't limited to low-income kids, the study's author said. "For math, income inequality was associated with lower achievement for both poor and non-poor students alike," said ...

Mary Antony Bair, David Bair, Scheduling Inequality in Math and Science: How Trimesters Hurt Students at Risk of Academic Failure, American Secondary Education, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Fall 2010), pp. 78-94