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Long Island students are scoring higher on reading and math tests, and that’s praiseworthy. Yet as always, those results are clouded by the decades-old issue of underperforming schools in low-wealth ...

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Students across Long Island made measurable gains in English Language Arts and mathematics during the 2024–25 school year, with Nassau County emerging as a regional leader, according to new assessment ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

America’s greatest obstacle to long-term prosperity is not a foreign adversary, but our country’s short-sighted approach to policymaking. There are many causes. Nine out of the last 10 U.S. national ...