Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Ananda Math (1882) is considered a foundational text for understanding Indian nationalism. His most influential idea was to imagine the nation as the motherland. “…The ...

Scores on New York’s statewide assessment tests improved in both math and English language arts during the 2024-2025 school year. Statewide, 57% of students tested proficient in math last year, up 3 ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...

Nearly half of young New Yorkers statewide are still missing the mark on standardized math and English exams, according to newly released data. The state Education Department released its yearly ...

SPRINGFIELD – Each year, the Illinois State Board of Education releases an annual report card with data showing how students are doing in the basic subjects of reading, writing and math. And each year ...

Half of Grade 6 students and 42 per cent of students in Grade 9 in Ontario did not meet the provincial standard for math in the 2024-25 school year, according to the latest standardized test scores.

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 ...