The 74 reports on a summer program in Birmingham, Alabama, improving skills for 40,000 kids through engaging activities, ...
Wild Zebra raised $6 million to expand an AI learning platform for math and reading that asks students questions rather than just giving them answers. The company says it now reaches tens of thousands ...
Tsinghua dean Shing-Tung Yau says the awards for two Chinese mathematicians point the way for producing more homegrown talent ...
Welcome to New York’s flunking factories. Failure in the city’s public education system has become “normalized” — and even bolstered by grade inflation and fixing — with nearly half of schools ...
Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction is proposing a "Portrait of a Graduate" initiative to focus on life skills. Critics express concern that this new focus may detract from improving poor ...
Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...
Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Stripped of careful phrasing, the logic is familiar: Some students are deficient, fixing them is costly, ...
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, ...
A “solid majority” of Harvard faculty preferred a formula that would cap A grades at 20 percent of enrolled students plus four over an amended version that would have set the cap at 20 percent plus ...
A team of students from American Heritage School’s Palm Beach County campus has been named a finalist in the MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge, an international competition that tasks students with ...