October 9, 2025 - For Chelsea Duran, returning to high school for her senior year means being on high alert, watching over her shoulder for immigration enforcement agents. I remember the day in ninth ...

In response to your coverage of the Clark County School District math test failures: It is much harder to teach high school math to students of moderate aptitude than it is to teach any other subject.

American middle school students don't much care that they're worse at math than their counterparts in Hong Kong and Finland. "I don't need it," my students say. "I'm gonna be a basketball star." Or a ...

Square regions 5 cm by 5 cm are removed from each of the 4 corners of a 30 cm by 40 cm rectangle. The sides are folded up to create an open box. What is the volume, in cubic centimeters, of the ...

Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged advocate for Pakistani girls' education, was released from the hospital earlier this month. Most of the world's girls don't have to fight as hard as Yousafzai for their ...

A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some common assumptions about gender and math achievement -- in particular, the idea that girls and women ...

New research comprehensively examined the brain development of young boys and girls. Their research shows no gender difference in brain function or math ability. In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie was released ...