Everyone Can Succeed is responding to critically low math scores, the widening Achievement-Gap, and statements from the U.S. Department of Education, whose Commissioner for the National Center for Education statistics declared recent test results, “are another piece of evidence showing the crisis in mathematics achievement.” Also, the department’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel has warned, fruitlessly, “Without substantial and sustained changes to our educational system, the United States will relinquish its leadership in this century.” They called for a coordinated national early childhood math initiative to improve mathematics teaching and learning for all children ages 3 to 6.

The Advisory Panel also recommended development of promising interventions to reduce math anxiety, help students understand the importance of effort in learning math, and scaled-up kindergarten and Pere-K interventions that strengthen mathematical knowledge. The education system has ignored these recommendations and the crisis is ongoing. Enter 501(c)3 nonprofit Everyone Can Succeed to provide a tested and validated remedy to advance young students ahead of grade-level.

Our nonprofit's national math crisis initiative was also spurred by The Education Commission of the States. The Commission has stated, “Young children have a surprising capacity to learn substantial mathematics, but most children in the U.S. have a discouraging lack of opportunities to do so. Too many children not only start behind, but they also begin a negative and immutable trajectory in mathematics, with insidious long-term effects.  These negative effects are in one of the most important subjects of academic life and also affect children’s overall life course.”

According to the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) released in December 2024, U.S. fourth grade math scores declined 18 points while eighth grade scores dropped 27 points since the previous assessments in 2019. Peggy Carr, Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics called the substantial declines “devastating” and credited the awful scores to the lowest performing students losing more ground.  She also noted the crisis in math achievement predates the Covid pandemic.

One month after the TIMMS scores were published, the U.S. Department of Education released "America's Report Card" results from 2024’s National Assessment for Economic Progress (NAEP). The scores are woeful. Nationally, only 28% of eighth graders are proficient in math. Among fourth graders the number is 39%. The minority scores are what’s most troubling because they’re horrendous. The math proficiency scores by race are: Fourth grade: African-American: 19%  Hispanic: 27%. Eighth grade: African-American: 10%  Hispanic: 15%. 85 and 90% not proficient. That is a travesty! A travesty that with your support Everyone Can Succeed will help remedy.