The problem with the “basic math” behind delaying Social Security is that it often overlooks longevity risk. While it’s true that waiting longer increases your benefit, your total lifetime payout ...

Gen Z college freshmen struggling with basic math Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Robert Pondiscio breaks down new UC San Diego data on Gen Z math failures, grade inflation, COVID ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

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 ...

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work with ...

My Dad Was Gay — But Married To My Mom For 64 Years. As She Died, I Overheard Something I Can't Forget. US Army and Navy stretched the rules to misrepresent the academic qualifications of recruits, ...

During a budget hearing held by the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 3, 2025, Senator John Kennedy displays his subpar math skills, believing that $1580 million per year over 10 years amounts ...

Students are barely beginning to recover from a historic decline in math performance. Across every grade and region of the country, students in every racial, income, and disability group have ...

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also ...

Some students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some, ...