A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and ...
In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...
Obviously, these are not topics that are outside the syllabus or the test blueprint,” he explained. WAEC’s provisional results for the 2025 WASSCE show that more than half of the candidates — 220,008 ...
The Head of Public Relations at the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), John Kapi, has attributed the sharp decline in core mathematics performance in the 2025 West African Senior School ...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has confirmed a national education concern with the release of the provisional WASSCE 2025 results, revealing a worrying surge in the outright failure rate ...
A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...
The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...
A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...
In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...
I enjoyed reading your recent discussion with Alex Baron, “How Much Autonomy Should Teachers Have Over Instructional Materials? ” In particular, I was struck by your skepticism about whether ...
The rapper opens up on the “Mama I Made It” podcast about love, growth, and finding his match in the soulful singer and talk show host. But the two are still unbothered, and going strong. And this ...