Cassidy has asked 35 institutions about incoming students' math abilities, citing a "crisis" in K-12 math education.

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These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated reasoning. But when it comes to four-digit multiplication, a task taught in ...

The world according to Jim: • It’s time. It’s past time, in fact. Time not only to change the process of deciding a college football champion, but time to change the entire face of the sport, after a ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

“Suppose f is a quadratic function satisfying f(6)=0, f(-6)=0, and f(0)=10. Then f(4)= A. 5 B. 5.5 C. 5.555 D. 5.666 E. None of the above. “OK, come on up here to the board and do those computations ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

When was the last time you checked your F You account? This personal escrow is the financial cushion—or your Plan B, akin to retirement, a career change or going back to your home country—that you ...

The Trump administration is now expanding its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by offering it to all colleges, hoping to find college administrators gullible enough to sign a ...

The Lone Star State has spent decades striving to expand access to Advanced Placement (AP) math courses, but the results remain underwhelming. A study we recently published at the Thomas B. Fordham ...