Data from Portland Public Schools’ winter benchmark assessments show signs of growth in reading, but a slight slide in math proficiency among the district’s student body in grades 3–8. The district ...

Abstract: The Hirschfeld-Gebelein-Rényi (HGR) maximal correlation and the corresponding functions have been shown useful in many machine learning scenarios. In this paper, we study the sample ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as ...

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 ...

A long-standing assumption in differential geometry has been overturned by mathematicians who found that key local properties of a surface may not uniquely define its overall shape. Their work ...

The Miami Dolphins‘ 2026 NFL Draft plans can be both simple and complex. On one hand, the Dolphins should be eager to draft the best players for their scheme with each and every pick. On the other, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

We all have expectations of our children. We are conscious of some of these — and less conscious of others. I want to talk about several issues regarding these expectations. First, as soon as we think ...

Nidhi Sachdeva is a researcher and lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. In December, Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office released its latest student-testing ...

Achievement in math doesn't happen without motivation—and the most successful districts know how to combine the two. During this recent webinar, hosted by Christine Weiser, Tech & Learning Content ...

Distributions: Normal, Gamma, Non-Central Chi-Squared (some functions are delegated to Apache commons-math). Models: Black Scholes, Bachelier, SABR, ZABR, CEV, etc. The library is available for Java ...