Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

A Chalkbeat analysis of federal wage data finds some trades offer middle-class wages, but many common jobs that don’t require ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a departure from the department’s grading ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Stripped of careful phrasing, the logic is familiar: Some students are deficient, fixing them is costly, ...

Back in 1994, financial adviser Bill Bengen came up with a retirement principle called the 4% rule. His idea went viral. Now, Bengen's rule is getting an update. The 4% rule says you should plan to ...

There has been quite a bit of research that shows relying on artificial intelligence tools encourages people to stop thinking critically and start deferring to the machine. But you’d be shocked at ...

The dream is seductive: retire in your thirties, ditch the commute, and spend your days on your own terms. The FIRE movement -- “financial independence, retire early” -- has attracted millions of ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for ...

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 ...

I have been thinking about a question that nobody in enterprise software seems to want to sit with: why can the most advanced AI models in the world solve Olympiad-level mathematics but fail to ...