Most of the New Jersey public high schools with the highest average SAT scores are ultra-selective magnet schools that admit only top students. But students at some local public high schools are also ...

The college entrance exam that Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth hailed as the nation's new "gold standard," promising to open doors at some of America's most elite institutions, is instead seeing its ...

On June 23, 1926, about 8,000 high school students across the United States took the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, known today as the SAT. That test looked very different than the one that about 2 ...

Nearly four years after San Diegans voted for a ballot measure to help address the city’s shortage of available child care, the dream is still far from being realized. Ongoing legal and feasibility ...

Los Angeles County is home to the largest homeless population in the U.S. — more than 72,000 people, according to official estimates. In 2024, county voters approved Measure A, a half-percent sales ...

The United Nations wants to know what country works best with the natural world. That’s tough to measure. As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have ...

Richard Heys is deputy chief economist in the Office for National Statistics, Newport, UK. For decades, economists have known that using gross domestic product (GDP) alone to guide policy is ...

Re “Hope for American Schooling, From Three Red States,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, Feb. 15): Mr. Kristof is right that the literacy gains in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana deserve attention.

A California economics professor is sounding the alarm on the “deficits in learning” she is seeing in the classroom, arguing that the decision to scrap standardized testing in the name of “inclusivity ...

Sites in China are selling test questions, and online forums offer software that can bypass test protections, according to tutors and testing experts raising alarms. By Stephanie Saul Three years ago, ...

Placebo effects are real, powerful, and deeply human, as I've discussed in my previous article. But a thorny question remains: How can we tell whether a depression treatment is producing genuine ...

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