A new report out of the University of California San Diego is raising educational alarm bells as American students fall ...

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...

Nearly 1,000 UCSD freshmen test into elementary school math despite stellar high school grades—a crisis 30 times worse than ...

Cristyonna got mostly A’s and B’s on her report cards, and teachers were positive about her learning. So Shareeda Jones, her mother, was startled when they moved and her daughter’s teacher in her new ...

Test-blind admissions, grade inflation, and mandated admissions from underrepresented high schools are destroying higher education.

It can be easy to think that you need math only to do your algebra or geometry homework or if you have a job as an engineer. But, in fact, math pops up everywhere – even in the soap bubbles in your ...

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We were teetering on the brink of frustration. Anthony sat hunched over our kitchen island, pencil in hand, peering at the figures and word problems spread out before him. I stood near-by, at a loss ...

Math sometimes gets a bad rap. Traditionally, it's not the most well-liked subject in school. Students often complain that it's difficult to understand. In fact, in a 2023 survey, math ranked only ...

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