Did you know there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the universe? Seems crazy, but it's true. Today The Why Files covers amazing math facts (and tricks) that will ...

Aldeman: Disparities between the highest and lowest performers widened in every state in the last 2 years. But the pattern is ...

At the Jan. 9 meeting of the Denver Public Schools board, drama was plentiful, but facts seemed scarce. For half an hour, ...

For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of ...

Spaced learning is an effective alternative to the traditional massed-learning approach, unlocking greater potential for both teaching and learning.

The sample size is small — so small, in fact, that we would have delayed addressing ... then headed to Maryland and Rutgers — all in 10 days. They lost all four games. We’re hesitant to ...

The National Center for Educational Statistics has released the “Nation’s Report Card,” which shows that American children ...

Today’s students are America’s future workers, but new data show their reading skills have fallen and math skills aren’t improving. That's a big problem.