A mere one in five (22%) seniors tested as "proficient" in math, and just a third (35%) in reading. Seventyfour - stock.adobe.com Here’s one more reason to detest teacher unions and other special ...

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When Del Norte High senior Tanay Shah was 6 years old, he went to India with his parents to visit relatives. An encounter during that trip set the now 17-year-old on a mission to give children ...

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Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...