Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...

American math and reading test scores have fallen in the last decade, according to data released Wednesday by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford. Read more about why that’s happening.

The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows. By Claire Cain Miller Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh Something troubling is happening in U.S.

Many Americans don't like the AI data centers popping up in their communities, though Kevin O'Leary thinks that's because they don't fully understand them. O'Leary, the venture capitalist and "Shark ...

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...

All of the most popular artificial intelligence chatbots have the ability to upload and summarize documents, from legal contracts to an entire book. The tech promises to give you a kind of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A licensed attorney with nearly a decade of experience in content production, Valerie Catalano knows how to help readers digest complicated information about the law in an approachable way. Her ...

Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Julia is the associate news editor for Health, where she edits and publishes news articles on trending health and wellness topics. Her work has been featured in The Heights, an independent student ...