Utah tried to infuse data science into its math standards. That effort got caught up in a broader debate about rigor and what math high schoolers need.

Carolyn Dickens receives funding from UIC research innovation grant. I am a board member of a federally qualified health care center. Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, ...

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Professor Maria McIlgorm was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to nursing and midwifery. Maria McIlgorm has been made an OBE in the New Years Honours list (NI Department ...

Math anxiety is one of the few student fears that travels across classrooms, cities, and abilities. It appears in high-performing schools and ordinary ones, among confident students and quiet ...

An elementary math problem has divided the internet after an easy-looking equation turned out to be anything but simple. Many X users were stumped by the problem 16 ÷ 4 X 4 - 4, posted by ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

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 ...

Police are investigating after threats were allegedly made toward a nursing center in Torrington on Tuesday morning, sending the facility as well as multiple daycares and schools in the area into ...

A new U.S. News & World Report analysis identifies top-performing nursing homes for patient care. In Southwest Florida, 15 nursing homes in Collier and Lee counties received high-performance ratings.