This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

Frustrated by AI industry claims of proving math results without transparency, a team of leading academics has proposed a better way ...

Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz of Brown University tackled the problem in a recent study by working backward from an existing polyhedral torus to answer questions about what would be needed to ...

These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

With three world champions entering the Olympics, the United States figure skating team could have its best medal haul in ...

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 ...

UC San Diego’s record-high enrollment seems to have come at a cost: increasingly underprepared students. On Nov. 6, UCSD’s Senate-Administration Working Group on Admissions released a new report that ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

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 ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

EdSource · From housing to basketball, Fresno schools invest in the whole child Five years after the Covid pandemic closed schools and pushed students into a year of distance learning, California test ...

High schoolers in the United States last year earned their lowest marks on reading and math in two decades, according to “The Nation’s Report Card,” released on Sept. 9. The test, also known as the ...