The president wants the United States to regain the world's highest college graduation rates, especially in math and science.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

But some schools say a federal law that only measures progress in math and reading has hurt language teaching.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Former president Bill Clinton said it was as if somehow school boards "could legislate differences in algebra or math or reading."

VOA: special.2010.07.22

A well-known example was when women's education groups objected to a talking Barbie that declared, among other things, "Math class is tough!"

VOA: special.2009.04.06

These list content in math and English language arts that students are expected to learn each year from kindergarten to high school.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

Those with ring fingers longer than index fingers did better on the math part of a standardized test than the reading part.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

They can lose trust in their abilities and intelligence, especially in areas like science, math and technology.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Earlier this year, California invited content developers to offer digital math and science materials for high schools.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

So math -- or,as the British call it,maths -- is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

Top students in the ninth and tenth grades can attend single-sex classes for math,science,English and social studies.

VOA: special.2010.12.02

Researcher Christianne Corbett says more boys than girls score very high on math tests in most countries.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Getting less than that was linked to lower abilities in language, reading and early math skills.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

"In those countries, more girls than boys actually scored above the ninety-ninth percentile in math.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

That name would go away. The current policy calls for every student to be ableto pass state tests in reading and math by two thousand fourteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.18