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National and district-level data confirm an alarming decline in student test scores over the past decade and a half.

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B, a 3-billion-parameter AI model, is challenging OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek on math and coding benchmarks while reigniting the debate over AI scaling, benchmark gaming and small-model reasoning.

The Nation’s Report Card released Wednesday revealed that a larger percentage of 9-year-old students were performing at or above “Level 200” for both reading math than students that were the same age ...

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Thousands of Indian schools lack basic facilities like toilets, water, and electricity Over 1 lakh schools have only one teacher; high pupil-teacher ratio in some states noted Teacher competency is ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In 2023, fourth-grade boys ...

‘President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages’: RFK Jr claims basic math rules don’t apply to White House - Carney says he's seen US.-Iran framework to end war, calls it a 'game ...