Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Both explanations have their place in math instruction, but according to a large-scale 2025 study of upper elementary math instruction, the use of precise mathematical terminology may matter more than ...

John Velleca wrote a policy to stop New Haven cops from dipping into a confidential informant fund. Seventeen years later a top cop dipped into the fund anyway. The lesson? Writing good policy matters ...

Do you stare at a math word problem and feel completely stuck? You're not alone. These problems mix reading comprehension with complex math concepts, making them a common hurdle for students. The good ...

Mark Furman began his career at a nonprofit doing what Mayor Zohran Mamdani would call God’s work: helping affordable housing residents take over their buildings. But the laws of physics and finance ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

I find it easy to relax. I think confidence has an awful lot to do with it, and a certain degree of accomplishment. I don’t mean that in a pompous sense. If I were struggling as a craftsman, I would ...

A member of our research community, Terhi Vessonen, along with her co-authors (Heidi Hellstrand, Matti Kurkela, Pirjo Aunio, and Anu Laine), has conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis ...

In the predawn darkness of a recent morning, basketball icon Kevin Garnett and his partner Teare Candelier experienced what many couples face: a heated disagreement that escalated beyond their control ...

OpenAI retracted a ChatGPT update after it made the AI chatbot overly sycophantic. The update used a new source of user feedback as a reward signal, leading to excessive agreeability. OpenAI ...

The Russia-Ukraine war has emerged as a watershed moment in modern military history, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of contemporary warfare. This white paper analyzes five transformative ...