Getting away to focus on your writing even for as little as a week could push you out of your comfort zone and unlock new ideas.

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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 ...

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 ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

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 ...

The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...

The U.S. Senate on Monday passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, H.R. 998, which, among other changes, requires the IRS to provide taxpayers ...

The start of a new school year brings adjustments to routines and schedules for students. Students are encouraged to learn life lessons beyond academics, such as being a friend and taking ...