Jon Van Wyk spent last weekend in the middle of a forest in northern Washington County — learning to make contour maps, observing items found on the forest floor and coming up with nature-based math ...

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

The Government's basic income scheme for artists is set to become a permanent fixture from next year, with 2,000 new places to be made available under Budget 2026. Minister for Culture Patrick ...

Just under one-third of all Texas school districts have ordered the controversial Bible-infused Bluebonnet materials, according to the Texas Education Agency. Twenty of those 367 districts are in the ...

If you’ve spent any time planning for retirement, you probably know the basics of Social Security: most people can start claiming benefits at age 62, reach “full retirement age” (FRA) between 66 and ...

The internet is torn over an elementary-level math equation which left many scratching their heads. The viral math problem has X users stumped - but the answer comes from lessons learned in fifth or ...

To continue my occasional series of columns actually about legal practice, I wanted to talk about the basics of financial hygiene – or, in other words, keeping your files in good shape to make your ...

Every era of seismic technological change has been accompanied by the fear that these will upend livelihoods and disrupt established ways of life. From the Luddites smashing looms in 19th-century ...

As many as 45% of U.S. high school seniors lack basic math skills, while more than 30% lack basic reading skills—the lowest rates in more than three decades—according to test results released by the U ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...