They had the credits. They completed their senior projects. They passed the reading and writing sections of the WASL or a state-approved alternative. They still couldn’t graduate. A few Snohomish ...

At one of California’s top universities, many freshmen are unable to do middle-school math.

Once again, a possible big lesson from the latest calculus homework set. One exercise gave the students this limit: They were asked to figure this limit three ways: By graphing the function in a small ...

I WAS raised in a home where arithmetic was important. Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s in suburban, car-oriented Detroit, my father always carried a slide rule and wore a white-shirt-pocket-protector.

The table above (click to enlarge) shows mean test scores and standard deviations for the SAT exam on the three different sections (reading, math and writing), broken down by gender (data available ...