If you are a parent, teacher, or policymaker, the annual release of exam results brings a familiar sense of anxiety. For ...

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Read why the 4% retirement rule may be riskier than it seems, and how we recommend to invest in dividend stocks instead.

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Many freshmen at the University of California San Diego are struggling with middle-school math despite having strong transcripts, a trend experts attribute to rising grade inflation across the U.S. A ...

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 ...

It’s been two whole weeks since the Steam Machine was revealed to the world, and we still have no idea how much it’ll cost. I still don’t know when Valve is going to announce the price, but in the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...