Math, reading and science proficiency among teenagers has decreased in dozens of countries, according to a new report the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development released Tuesday. One in ...

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College football coach John Beam from ‘Last Chance U’ has died after being shot, Oakland police say Letters to the Editor: New Epstein emails 'signal something far more troubling than gossip' Michael ...

The grades have been posted for the nation's report card, and the latest data is troubling. According to the National Assessment of Education Progress, students are continuing to lose ground in ...

Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years Gone are the days of the $1 buffet in Las Vegas. Now $175 buffets offer ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): I think it's a good thing to have children who are being born today, like my kids won't notice there's a Black dad and a white mom in that ad, versus when I was growing up, ...

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Twenty years ago, cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke took a strong position in an ongoing public debate. "There are no differences in overall intrinsic aptitude for science and mathematics among ...

A study suggests that carefully controlled electrical stimulation of the brain may improve math skills, most significantly in people with weaker connections in a specific part of the brain. When you ...

Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...