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High school results in math are devastating low

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High school students, especially 12th graders, are reading and learning math and science at historic lows, according to a new report from the National Assessment of Education Progress.

The new report, known as the Nation’s Report Card, was released Monday by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Department of Education. It is the first nation’s report card to be released since the coronavirus pandemic.

You can read the full report HERE

Germany waking up to dyscalculia

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Those who suffer from dyscalculia have difficulties with numbers and quantities. On average, two pupils per class are affected. The SPD wants to improve equal opportunities.

Pupils with dyscalculia need better support, according to the SPD and the Greens. Following a hearing in the state parliament, SPD education expert Gerald Eisenblätter called for dyscalculia to be recognized as a partial performance weakness and for those affected not to be disadvantaged. While this has already been done in the case of dyslexia, pupils with such an impairment have so far been denied this status. Early diagnosis, a right to compensation for disadvantages and individual support measures are needed.

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Lose, Lose, Lose

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Children with learning difficulties or disabilities and their parents face a “lose, lose, lose” situation, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he pledged to press ahead with reforming special needs support in schools.

Downing Street backed Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, after she was criticised by Labour MPs and campaigners for refusing to guarantee that children with special needs would continue to have the same legal rights to bespoke support in school.

Ministers said that retaining the existing system would end up “failing children and failing parents” and insisted that reform should not result in the overall level of support for special needs being cut.

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What happened in the House of Lords in the UK when they discussed dyscalculia?

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Late in the evening of Wednesday 4th June 2025 the first ever government debate on dyscalculia took place in the House of Lords. Introduced by Baroness Bull, the debate highlighted several issues with the awareness of, and provision for, dyscalculia. 

The Lords that participated in the debate were not short of suggestions to solve the problem, some perhaps more rooted in evidence than others. Perfectly sensible suggestions like ensuring funding for dyscalculia awareness, identification and support are brought in line with the funding for dyslexia are paired with more extreme suggestions to split the GCSE into functional maths and pure maths (the Maths Horizons report recently highlighted the issues with this proposal) alongside the usual calls to radically alter the maths curriculum to make it much more about practical uses of mathematics – this one often polarises maths teachers and leaders but Mark McCourt wrote very eloquently about the dangers of this including the famous phrase from George W. Bush about the “soft bigotry of low expectations”. One excellent suggestion, in my opinion, actually came from Baroness Bull in her speech to open the debate in which she highlighted that standard maths teaching and assessment can disadvantage dyscalculic students because of the volume of content in the curriculum and the focus on carrying out calculations quickly. Baroness Bull highlighted that some of the most successful approaches for teaching dyscalculic pupils include taking time to learn fundamental knowledge and skills in depth, alongside spaced revisiting and retrieval.

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Best dyscalculia blog for 2025

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The readers from feedspot have chosen our blog as the number one dyscalculia blog for 2025. We are so humbled by this and will continue our journey to create awareness and knowledge about dyscalculia.