How did New York come to spend over a billion dollars a year settling special-education lawsuits brought, mostly, by white ...

Do kindergarteners really need to be doing this many worksheets?

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

WCSD is backing away from a $6 million, three‑year i‑Ready renewal and instead wants one‑year extension to evaluate whether ...

Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp​ has signed a series of new education bills into law, aiming to improve student performance and ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Anything is possible in March Madness. Well, sort of. Since the NCAA Tournament field expanded in 1985, No. 16 seeds have beaten No. 1 seeds only twice in 160 games. That's a 1.25 win percentage, ...

Being over the age of 65 does not mean someone is automatically retired. But for many older Americans, work continues well past this age. Roughly 19.5% of seniors over 65 were still working in 2024, ...

Students in some Portland-area districts get five weeks more time in class every year than others who live only a few miles away but are enrolled in different school systems, a new analysis by The ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. No matter where you look, a bell curve is close by. Place a measuring cup in your ...