Given the decades-long market upswing followed by the recent downturn, you may have questions about if your money is really working for you. For instance, is it possible to make an average 25% rate of ...

What do the wealthy pay in federal taxes? On paper, the top marginal income-tax rate is 37% on ordinary income and 23.8% on capital gains. Government estimates put high-income filers’ average rates in ...

At a Board of Regents meeting Wednesday, Tristan Denley, Louisiana’s deputy commissioner of academic affairs and innovation, shared an encouraging statistic: Course completion for entry-level math has ...

A Chicago institution with an 87% proficiency rate for math and reading is the best elementary school in Illinois, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The Best Illinois ...

Harvard University is introducing a new introductory math course, Math MA5, to address gaps in foundational algebra skills among its students, according to The Harvard Crimson. The pilot program, ...

• Today, the richest Americans pay an effective tax rate of more than 20% on the income the government counts under the current tax code. Biden’s 8% figure compares their tax payments to an amount ...

The Compton Unified School District is winning recognition for its success with students, who are showing significant, long-term academic improvement that is outpacing growth in California and the ...

More than 40% of grammar school students in the city failed the state’s standardized math and reading texts this year — but officials praised some gains in the results released Monday. More city ...

Wisconsin’s long-suffering electric ratepayers have been assured for decades that large capital investments made now will pay off in the long run. We once had some of the lowest electricity rates in ...

U.S. News ranks Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Center Illinois’ top elementary school. U.S. News evaluated more than 3,400 Illinois pre-K, elementary and middle schools. U.S. News compared schools ...