How can I assume that? The test asked them to define the word decipher, and 24 percent got it wrong. “You can’t believe how ...
You might find the following question on a first-grade math test: "Fill in the box: 7+2 = [blank] + 6." What you wouldn't expect is for 25 percent of incoming freshmen at a highly ranked university to ...
The Lawrence district’s enrollment this school year is 2% lower than the last school year — and comparable to the number of ...
Middle schoolers' access to the course is stratified along racial, socioeconomic, and regional lines, new research finds.
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AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2 In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math.… Though AI models ...
UC San Diego’s record-high enrollment seems to have come at a cost: increasingly underprepared students. On Nov. 6, UCSD’s ...
A new report from UCSD demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college level math courses.
AGATE will continue running for second, third and fourth graders next year, but School Board members voted 5-1 to put a pause ...
In an entertaining and effective math primer, two children solve a haunted house's riddles using algebra. "The two sides of each equation are balanced. They're equal," Adler explains, before ...