Standardized test scores in Rhode Island are up, according to results released by state education department Thursday morning. The state’s education boss is hailing the results. “The gains that we’re ...

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Jenna Bush Hager says her “big fights” with her dad over bad grades sometimes got so bad she’d “cry myself to sleep” at night. Reporter Jenna Bush Hager has opened up about the cause of some of her ...

The National Science Foundation has slashed funding available for research into STEM instruction in K-12 schools. The move—which amounts to a roughly 50% cut for such research, experts calculate —also ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Wyoming — Landen Lee looked to his classmates Liliya Zuidema and Morgan Cramer while investigating an algebra problem. “The pattern is going up by 400,” he said, as the trio compared numbers on a ...

The U.S. Department of Education released two new proposed priorities for competitive grant-making on Thursday, shedding more light on what initiatives the administration plans to champion—just as it ...

Learning math is a deeply cognitive experience. But the strength of that learning is highly influenced by emotions. The brain systems we aim to recruit in education—attention, motivation, memory, and ...