One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

A student walks down a hallway as several signs indicating students are taking STAAR exams are displayed at Arnold Elementary ...

Changes in scores vary widely across the state. Some districts — like Wasatch County — are bucking the downward trend, while ...

Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic.

Picture a woman who turns 67 in October 2026. That is her full retirement age (FRA), the point at which Social Security pays ...

The data includes third- through eighth-grade test scores for districts in 40 states and the District of Columbia, as of the ...

Below, you can look up how test scores for your district have changed since 2015. (Note that some states — New York among ...

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

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City officials are preparing to travel about 2,400 miles to Las Vegas this weekend for an international shopping center convention, but questions remain about h Baltimore police probe 2 shootings that ...

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 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 ...