Schooling plays a surprisingly large role in short-changing the nation's most economically disadvantaged students of critical math skills, according to a a new study. Findings from the study indicate ...

A study published on June 11, 2025 in Nature and conducted on nearly 3 million schoolchildren in France between 2018 and 2022, coordinated by Stanislas Dehaene, professor at the Collège de France, and ...

It's widely recognized that, in the US at least, there's a gender gap in performance on tests of basic skills: boys tend to perform better at math, while girls get superior reading scores. It has been ...

This article about SEM schools was produced in partnership with The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. This is part 2 of ...