The committee also passed measures to explore future school district consolidations, restrict the use of cellphones in ...

Every week, my 7-year-old brings home worksheets with math problems and writing assignments. But what captivates me is what ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Hiring in December was muted, though the unemployment rate inched down – a soft end to the 2025 labor market that revealed underlying signs of strain. US employers added 50,000 jobs in December – a ...

Risk concerns and falling interest rates are top of mind for many nonbank lenders as the private-credit industry looks to the year ahead. In 2025, credit-fund managers had to contend with high-profile ...

Social Security’s 2.8% COLA for 2026 may not keep pace with inflation if tariffs drive costs higher. COLAs are based on worker spending patterns rather than retiree spending, leading to insufficient ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

The November jobs report shows that employers added 64,000 jobs but 105,000 jobs were lost in October with the unemployment rate now 4.6%, the highest in four years. What happened with the 14th ...

New York charter school Success Academy outperformed public schools in math rankings statewide, according to the New York State Education Department’s newly released test score data for grades 3–8.

Uncertainty tied to President Donald Trump’s choice to replace Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal Reserve is adding to market angst over the path of interest rates into the coming year and ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...