Many of us like to think that we’re fairly smart. But it can be a very humbling experience when you’re in the presence of ...

Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...

Kids take SC READY tests in ELA and math at the end of each year between third and eight grade, and in science in fourth and ...

You know that feeling when you’re exhausted, the sink is full, the kids need something, and you think, “I don’t have time for ...

The two sat in separate sections in 1968 when the Hoosiers lost their first-ever bowl game. But Thursday, when Indiana faces ...

A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and ...

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has released a mathematical reasoning model that can identify and correct its own errors. The model beat the best human score in one of the world’s ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...