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In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

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 ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

CORRECTING and REPLACING Addi Secures a $71M Credit Upsize from Goldman Sachs, Fasanara Capital, and BBVA Spark, Reinforcing Global Confidence and Accelerating its Growth A renewed commitment from top ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

Dr. Marlene Tromp, President, Boise State University: Mark Becker, the president of the APLU, was in town to recognize Boise State for having the greatest student success program in the country this ...

IT WAS A MORNING FULL OF HEART IN ESSEX TO HONOR ADDI CARROLL, A YOUNG GIRL WHOSE BIG BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT CONTINUES TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER NEARLY THREE YEARS AFTER HER PASSING. HER FAMILY AND THE ...