San Luis Obispo girls flag football is 11-1-2 and one win away from securing the championship in the sport’s debut season.

Some children focused on fewer parts of the object and spent less time studying its details. This suggests they used a holistic strategy, meaning they took in the whole image at once, instead of ...

Human Models Paris modelling agency picked up Taka two days before she flew to France for Paris Fashion Week. Her Milan agency told her she would have to pay her own way to Paris ...

After years of declining student scores, the state’s plan centers on evidence-based teaching strategies akin to what other states have adopted. ‘Not Gonna Happen’: Lawmakers Shrug Off Pay Freeze ...

Millions of adults in their 20s or older have coronary artery disease. But experts say the common condition doesn’t have to be an inevitable part of aging. There are steps you can take to reduce your ...

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Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

The grades have been posted for the nation's report card, and the latest data is troubling. According to the National Assessment of Education Progress, students are continuing to lose ground in ...

Our math and reading scores have been declining for a decade. The “Southern Surge” should be a wake-up call. Emily Scherer has been teaching fifth-grade English in Newport, Vermont, for nearly a ...

My daughter “Karina” just entered first grade. Just last evening, I got a call from her teacher about her behavior. Karina reads well and is apparently well ahead of the rest of her class. I was asked ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...