WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 ...

SAYBURC, TURKEY—Over the past two decades, archaeological work in southeastern Turkey’s Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, region has changed the way that archaeologists think about early human history, ...

Florida Virtual School is using artificial intelligence to strengthen its students’ math skills. More than 80 students from sixth to eleventh grade were the first to participate in the online school’s ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

Honeycomb, a mathematical marvel, is made by worker bees. A new study shows that the insects are very good at adapting to wonky foundations. By Jacey Fortin Inside a hive, honeybees are talented ...

A worker carries a sheet of newly printed U.S. dollar bills at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 8, 2022. [AP Photo/LM Otero] The US dollar ...

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Multiple independent analyses say the recently passed House reconciliation bill — even with its deep spending cuts in some areas — would ...

This month, we visit a trendy (but fictional) spa with an unusual feature: hot mud beds. You lay a plastic sheet on the mud. Then you lay your body upon the sheet. Without any direct contact between ...

The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved. By David A. Fahrenthold Aatish ...