The number of public school students scoring proficient or better in English Language Arts exams went up by 7.2% this year, according to new data from the exams given to students in grades three ...

During extended upward-trending markets that reward risk-takers and punish caution, everyone is a “bull market genius”. As ...

Markets never sit still. Geopolitics shift overnight, economies seem to pivot without warning, and investor sentiment can turn on a dime. As we enter 2026, many investors will seek comfort in clearly ...

Telisha “Nikki” Jones grew up steeped in gospel, blues and R&B. She sang in a choir and wrote poetry. But becoming a full-time artist was “never a dream of mine,” she said. That all changed in ...

Trustees at member institutions across the Big Ten are pushing back on a proposed $2.4 billion private equity deal that some argue has been too rushed, lacking transparency and proper vetting. Now, ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

The 2025-26 college basketball season begins today and Big Ten play starts in early December with a pair of conference games for each program. With no shortage of player movement due to the transfer ...

Patrons at the Ignacio Community Library in Colorado explore the IDEA LAB makerspace, where they can access free tools to pursue personal projects and learn new skills. (Photo courtesy of Ignacio ...

Toward the end of the 1954 film “On the Waterfront,” Marlon Brando’s character, Terry, makes one of the most famous speeches in the history of movies. The most often quoted line is “I could have been ...

The numbers did not compute. Even before Terry Rozier dropped out of the 2023 NBA game in which he's accused of rigging his statistics, computers at an "integrity monitor" firm flagged a flood of bets ...