More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

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A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that no induction method was clearly more effective than low-dose vaginal misoprostol, although some methods were less effective and safety ...

A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that 13 common methods for medically inducing labor are similarly effective, but their safety profiles differ according to clinical context.

For many individuals, growing uncomfortable with mathematics often starts in early childhood when they receive a worksheet with numbers on it. At this point in life, there may be feelings of panic, ...

Districts are already making large financial investments into core programs. So why are they still buying more resources to make up for what their textbooks can’t do? Let’s be honest about what’s ...

Abstract: Adaptive subtraction plays a crucial role in the surface-related multiples elimination (SRME) method. Following the acquisition of predicted surface multiples, the traditional adaptive ...

A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

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 ...

A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...