Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

A spreadsheet expert who was crowned one of the best in the world last month is eyeing the number one spot in 2026. Ha Dang, from Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire, represented the UK at the Microsoft ...

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Late-night came roaring back to life, Roy Wood Jr. delivered a must-see special and Amy Poehler made a must-listen podcast. By Jason Zinoman Many savvy observers declared the death of the late-night ...

From left, Steph Tolev, Frankie Quiñones and Nate Jackson. (Photo illustration by Josep Prat Sorolla / For The Times; photographs by Christina House / Los Angeles Times and Ethan Benavidez / For The ...

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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 ...

The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...

For the first 70 years of the 20th century, comedy duos were ubiquitous on the big screen, radio and stage. Now mostly forgotten, Gallagher and Shean were a hugely popular vaudeville act in the 1910s ...

Who doesn’t need a dancing gorilla to spark some joy in their life right now? A windswept gannet, laughing lions and a sleepy frog could also lift the mood, which is probably why they have all been ...