As many as 45% of U.S. high school seniors lack basic math skills, while more than 30% lack basic reading skills—the lowest ...

Average performance in both subjects has fallen to the lowest levels in nearly 20 years, with nearly half of seniors scoring ...

Recent NAEP results reveal a concerning decline in math and reading scores among 12th-grade students nationwide, signaling ...

In National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered in early 2024, high school seniors posted historically low ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. Although this claim sounds ...

The Goldilocks solution to our math crisis is where relatable problems aren’t so simple that there’s no learning but also not so complex and irrelevant that there's none.

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...

US President Donald Trump has put a number on his upcoming Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin, calculating whether his high-stakes talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin would be a success.

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Call it MAG: mutually assured gerrymandering. First ...