Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

The San Francisco Unified School District is investigating a math teacher at Lowell High School amid questions about his teaching methods. The investigation centers around complaints over potentially ...

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...

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Four years after the pandemic emergency ended and K-12 performance plunged nationwide, New Jersey’s third through eighth graders are finally edging up to be on par with pre-pandemic levels, although ...

Scores on New York’s statewide assessment tests improved in both math and English language arts during the 2024-2025 school year. Statewide, 57% of students tested proficient in math last year, up 3 ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Students at Burbank Elementary School in Logan Heights have achieved remarkable gains in English reading and math test scores, earning recognition from California State ...

Recent media coverage of an 18-year-old woman from Greenland's legal battle to regain custody of her baby after the child was taken from by government authorities just an hour after birth has cast a ...

Newly released data from a crucial national test revealed historically low scores in two major subjects for 12th graders across the country, further emphasizing that U.S. students have struggled to ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington’s top education official accused critics of deliberately misrepresenting state test results in an effort to undermine public schools and push for privatization.

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...