This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Living in New York City, I’m often asked if I go down to Times Square for the festivities on New Year’s Eve. That’s a hard no; I can’t think of a ...

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Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said the White House is studying the introduction of a 50-year mortgage. President Donald Trump and the head of a key housing agency over ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. North Carolina is overhauling its math standards, with major changes potentially coming to the courses students take in high school.

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The U.S. Senate on Monday passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, H.R. 998, which, among other changes, requires the IRS to provide taxpayers ...

A Westdale Middle School math teacher was arrested Tuesday morning after a drug-sniffing dog alerted police to cocaine in a bag on her desk. Virginia Somers, 47, was booked into the parish prison on a ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...