The cost to build a new home in many of our core neighborhoods runs $15,000 to $30,000 more than the home will appraise for once it’s done. That gap between what it costs to build and what the market ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

This story about math standards was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and ...

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Every word you type into an AI tool gets converted into numbers. Not metaphorically, literally. Each word (called a token) is ...

No matter what, the loss of one's twin is a devastating, highly sensitive, and traumatic event for the twin who survives.

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What are we missing?” A nationwide gap in phonics instruction galvanized the science of reading movement. But as the movement ...

As part of this editorial board’s ongoing election coverage and endorsement process, we reached out to candidates for state ...

Explore how family traditions evolve over time due to changing values, technology, migration, and practical needs, keeping their core meaning alive.

How Hungarians ousted Viktor Orbán is a critical case study for people doing the unglamorous but essential work of democracy defense.