Having just finished parent-teacher conferences, I reflected on my many conversations. How do we help our students gain a growth-mindset? Or rather, what have we done to destroy it? Teachers and ...

As a math teacher, I come across a lot of students who say, “I can’t do it,” “I don’t get it,” or “It’s not for me.” I feel their pain, because I remember and recognize there was one day that even I ...

Is U.S. education like the weather? Everyone talks about it but no one can quite figure out how to improve it? Education theory has changed over the years from the days when students were bolted to ...

Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford professor and leading mathematician of analytic number theory, recieves the 2011 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences. (Courtesy the Infosys Science Foundation) In ...