Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, the suspensions of three student organisations at the Chinese University of Hong Kong signalled ongoing pressure on campus unions regarding their legal status ...

The U.S. military had a very intense 2025, carrying out significant operations all over the globe in defense of the homeland. In some instances, the places where the military carried out kinetic ...

Proposed changes to broker supervision rules in Ontario may expand the pool of people who can regulate junior brokers in any brokerage, but it could also lead to a reduction of investment by new ...

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

Carson City students are making gains in their math skills but showing mixed results in their English language arts skills, the latest Nevada School Performance Framework results indicate. The Nevada ...

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The Mayor’s Management Report, a trove of statistics about crime rates, public health and many other issues, arrived at the tail end of Mayor Eric Adams’s re-election campaign. By Andy Newman Of the ...

Whenever there's a big show coming up, like WWE Wrestlepalooza this weekend, it can be instructive (not to mention fun) to go back and watch some older, related matches in the lead-up to the event.

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...