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When I read in The New York Times today that pigeons can do math, I practically got up and did a jig. I've always said math is for the birds, but who knew that it would be math's academic twin, ...

One man leaves New York going West at 100 mph. Another leaves Chicago going East at 120 mph. Where do they meet? The answer is, of course, jail, since they are both driving much too fast. This joke ...

SEATTLE – If it weren’t for passionate people, this would be a dull world. Peter Cavanagh of Lopez Island, Washington, certainly qualifies in the passionate category, having taken 600,000 photos in ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

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 ...