Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

Some say the 15th century, with evidence that there were races in Norway around that time. USA Luge believes that the sport ...

It’s become all too apparent that high school grades are insufficient in signaling college preparedness.

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As of today, list prices on over 350 medications have increased. While the new $2,100 Medicare Part D cap offers significant ...

Manhattan: The failed Senate vote left millions of people facing a painful reality: The health insurance credits that help more than 20 million Americans afford health care will likely expire on ...

Every winter, humidifiers seem to pop up everywhere. Stacked on store shelves, spotlighted in home-care roundups and quietly humming in bedrooms across the country. And it’s not hard to understand why ...

Many freshmen at the University of California San Diego are struggling with middle-school math despite having strong transcripts, a trend experts attribute to rising grade inflation across the U.S. A ...

Chalkbeat Ideas is a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. An obscure university report has ...