Across the nation, kids are heading back to school. It’s an exciting time. I remember both the joy and the nervousness that came with my now twin 13-year-olds' first starting school. In fact, one day ...

Boys take more math classes than girls, right? Wrong, according to a new study that found that female high school students take as many math courses as males. And they are more likely to do so if ...

Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford without the aid of makeup or prosthetics. That was part of the joke -- a snarky 32-year-old preppie playing a stolid Midwesterner, an accidental president who despite ...

Now a look at how required math classes may factor into the academic success or failure of high school and college students. Hari Sreenivasan has the story as part of our weekly education series, ...

Review of The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, By Andrew Hacker (The New Press, 2016), 240 pp.; $17.30: ISBN-10: 1620970686, ISBN-13: 978-1620970683 I believe it is safe to say the United States ...

Andrew Hacker's new book, "The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions," presents a detailed argument for alternatives to Algebra as a required school subject for all students. In its place, Hacker ...

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