Ayden Mejia-Solis reached the milestone during his school's "Two Million Word Challenge," which helps bilingual students ...

Schools would not be required to use the state materials, but districts that do so would receive up to $60 per student to purchase and print them.

We have also shared this different approach to teaching with teachers of mathematics at all grade levels. In one initiative .

Less than one-third of Philadelphia high school students’ passed state math exams last year — even fewer than previous years.

"The challenge with math, from a local district perspective and a teacher perspective, is that there's too many standards ...