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The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...

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 ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

Lakeville Elementary School in Great Neck and Jericho Middle School have for the second year led Long Island schools, as 17 local schools were among the state's top 50 public schools in their ...

IMF sees Middle East, North Africa growth picking up Says region has been resilient despite global uncertainty Risks to outlook still to the downside DUBAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The International ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

President Trump wants to quickly pivot from a Gaza cease-fire to the thornier problem of a broader peace in the Middle East, betting that two years of war transformed the region so much that ...

Blizzard recently opened the gates on a renewed version of an old World of Warcraft expansion, giving players the opportunity to blast through familiar quests and dungeons with way more power than ...

In 1990, Laurence Gregory Watkins of Auckland, New Zealand, changed his legal name to include 2,253 unique words Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, joined ...

It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before they happened. From climate shifts to stock market crashes, scientists now ...