America has always taken pride in being the land of opportunity, a country in which hard work and sacrifice result in a better life for one’s children. Economic growth has made that dream a reality ...

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 ...

Inequality in education is a defining challenge of our time. Around the world, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are far more likely to underperform in school than are students ...

A research paper, out of Tufts University and in an online publication of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), makes an interesting claim. Bruce Boghosian and Christoph Börgers, ...

Only about 2 percent of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers are held by Black women. Philadelphia native Atiyah Harmon is on a mission to exponentially increase this ...

The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

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 ...