The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress ...

The reading and math scores of 12th graders has dropped to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results from an exam known as the nation's report card. The National Assessment of ...

Scores for 12th-graders in math and reading continued their years-long slide, reaching new lows on national tests, new data released Tuesday show. Scores for 12th-graders in math and reading continued ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Journal Editorial Report: Public schools compete for students as more parents opt out. A study of French schoolchildren published this summer in the journal Nature found girls fall behind boys in math ...

Philanthropist and billionaire heiress Liz Simons, who donated $250,000 to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, a PAC supporting Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, oversees a foundation that is reportedly ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

At least 17 people were left injured in a massive crash involving multiple trucks and light motor vehicles on the N3 highway near Peacevale early on Thursday morning. It has been reported that the ...

The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal says the R8 billion investment in upgrading the N3 highway between Ashburton and Cato Ridge marks a significant step towards improving ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...