In education, few issues have stirred more debate in recent years than when middle and high schoolers should take algebra.

More students should be taking advanced math.

In James Bell’s math class at Chapman High School, sophomores are trying to pinpoint exactly where two lines cross. The students in this rural Kansas high school already solved for that meeting point ...

America, we’ve got a middle school problem. Although reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ Long-Term Trend assessment, scores haven’t ...

The most important takeaway is that intelligence cannot be reduced to a single score or trait. It is a complex combination of different abilities that work together in unique and often imperfect ways.

The Jaylen Brown trade is an inflection point for basketball analytics.

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

Smartschool, a Palo Alto edtech startup founded by three Polish entrepreneurs, built a proprietary mathematical reasoning engine that achieves 99.6 percent accuracy for high-school math, earning ...

Seven years ago, the University of California system appointed an 18-member committee to study the use of standardized tests ...

The Sports Analytics Research Group employs quantitative analysis to give teams the hard numbers they need to perform better ...