A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Just as any student can invent a dodgy excuse for a bad report card, the state Department of Education’s cheerleaders are full of explanations for recent mediocre SAT test scores: Bad math, maybe, Or ...

In the latest confirmation that extended pandemic-era school closures took a huge toll on a generation of young Oregonians, new federal test results show the state’s middle and elementary students ...

Math and reading scores have taken another blow as schools struggle to rein in pandemic learning loss, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Average math scores for ...

ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2 In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much ...

Student Lila Conley works on a calculus problem during the Bridge to Calculus summer program at Northeastern University. Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign ...

In recent years, research on the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields has proliferated. (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.) STEM jobs tend to be higher-paying ...

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