In another "Freakonomics"- style study that turns conventional wisdom about public- versus private-school education on its head, education professors have found that public-school students outperform ...

Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly ...

Greater competition from private schools in Quebec could partially explain why the province's public schools outperformed the rest of Canada in a 2012 international math test, a C. D. Howe Institute ...

Angus Gale enrolled his daughter in an after-school math tutoring program when she was in Grade 3. At the time, his daughter was two years behind her class, and having difficulty with adding and ...

While the “math” on taking struggling personal-computer Dell Inc. private works, the likelihood of a leveraged buyout is “probably low” since the deal would be one of the largest such transactions in ...

Teaching children about math isn't easy. At a time when science, technology, engineering and mathematics are critical to a head-spinning number of careers, Kansas schools have seen stagnating ...

Why did one of the smartest hedge fund investors on the planet spend the early parts of 2017 buying shares in private equity giant Apollo Global Management hand over fist? To understand the reason ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Ten private schools in a five-county region of Central New York had at least 80% of their students score proficient on at least one statewide assessment test in English language arts ...