The dismantling of the Ed Dept., why kids aren’t reading, teacher pay. The 74 takes a look back at some of our biggest ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Obviously, these are not topics that are outside the syllabus or the test blueprint,” he explained. WAEC’s provisional results for the 2025 WASSCE show that more than half of the candidates — 220,008 ...

The Head of Public Relations at the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), John Kapi, has attributed the sharp decline in core mathematics performance in the 2025 West African Senior School ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Saturday, November 29, 2025, released the provisional results for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, ...

The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...

(The Center Square) – The latest national test scores in reading, math and science reflect more of the same pattern in American education: Far too many students are underperforming. In fact, in some ...

(The Center Square) – The latest national test scores in reading, math and science reflect more of the same pattern in American education: Far too many students are underperforming. In fact, in some ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has ...