Heine Borel and the Finite Subcovers, a band composed of Notre Dame honors math graduates, now has their work out on vinyl.

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

In mid-November 2025, a rumor spread on X that New York City's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would be introducing "Arabic numerals" to schools in the city. One post from the account of the prediction ...

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 out of the University of California San Diego is raising educational alarm bells as American students fall further behind. As public schools continue to fail the children of the United ...

In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hoover Institution senior fellow Philip Zelikow explained two ways that people can learn from history. Hoover Institution senior fellow Philip ...

When I was younger, math facts were my jam. I had an almost photographic memory for numbers. I could memorize phone numbers, birthdays, and—you guessed it—math facts. I loved playing classwide games ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Duolingo, a quick-and-easy learning app that boasts more than 128 million monthly active users worldwide — ...

One question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years: Do infinities exist? More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential and actual. The former ...