It took an earthquake to convince one city to do away with a double-decker highway. City planners in San Francisco had tried for years to get approval for removing the Embarcadero Freeway that blocked ...

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“For some, common core is creating common confusion,” said education correspondent Rehema Ellis on a recent NBC News segment. The crux of the news piece was that parents are struggling to help their ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hi, I'm Miss James and I'm so happy to be your teacher today. For this lesson, you will need 10 objects ...

From how we build our cities to how we shop, it can seem as though our natural human tendency is to add. But a culture of accumulation may be exactly what holds us back from the simple solution in ...

Most adults learned to ride a bike in childhood by first plugging along on tricycles, then wobbling around on bikes with training wheels. Thanks to Ryan McFarland, our kids have it better. In 2007, ...

Subtraction is taking away one number from another. Lilly has 4 balloons, but then one flys away. How many does she have left? You can use subtraction to find the answer. First there were 4 balloons.