Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...
Port Lavaca Wave

More than 1,250 letters to Santa received

We were overwhelmed by the response to our annual Letters to Santa feature, with more than 1,250 letters submitted this year. Due ...
Brainerd Dispatch

Letters to Santa: Ms. Breit's second grade class at Eagle View Elementary

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NDTV

MS Dhoni To Retire After IPL 2026? Ex-CSK Teammate's Huge Remark After Auction: "Writing On The Wall"

MS Dhoni is all set to retire from the Indian Premier League (IPL) after the 2026 season, according to his former Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and India teammate Robin Uthappa. Following CSK's buys at ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
Washington Examiner

UC San Diego freshmen not prepared for college-level math, writing classes: Report

(The Center Square) – A new report by the University of California, San Diego found freshmen are nowhere near ready for college math and writing classes. The problem isn’t isolated to new students at ...
Newsweek

Students at California University Without 8th Grade Math Skills Skyrockets

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 ...
Edutopia

5 Strategies to Help Build Math Fluency in K–2

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about numbers. And while that may seem daunting, most kids enjoy sharpening their math ...
Crain's Chicago Business

Alight stumbles again, posting 2nd straight billion-dollar write-down

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Alight's transition to focusing solely on employee ...
ABC7 San Francisco

2nd escaped monkey fatally shot, leaving 1 monkey still on the loose after Mississippi crash

HEIDELBERG, Miss. -- A second monkey has been shot and killed and authorities said Tuesday that they were still searching for a third missing monkey a week after their escape from a truck that ...
The Atlantic

Why Students Are Obsessed With ‘Points Taken Off’

Harvard is worried about going soft. Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students. According to an “Update on Grading and Workload” from the ...