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 low ‘below basic’ is,” says Carol Jago, a former public-school teacher who ...

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 ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below ...

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.

Second-grade teacher Kathy-Ann St. Hill-St. Lawrence (or “Ms. Saint,” as she’s affectionately called by her students) is a strong proponent of incorporating movement and games into the classroom in ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

The end of every school year usually comes with daily announcements about everything for the summer. First-grade teacher Tina de Leon had some good news and some bad news for her students. Beginning ...

The future of math education will begin with the divorce of a very long-term marriage between math learning and grade-level instruction. “The Future of Math,” my chapter in School Rethink 2.0, ...

It seems like just yesterday your kid was learning 1 + 1 = 2, but now your second-grader has moved on to new challenges. Bigger numbers and regrouping are in the mix, and the ability to follow ...