A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

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California requires the State Board of Education to adopt at least five math programs in grades K-8. The board far surpassed ...

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...