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Cher admits her 40-year age gap relationship is 'strange' but 'love doesn't know math'

Believe songstress Cher has admitted her 40-year age gap relationship with Alexander Edwards is 'strange on paper' but says 'love doesn't know math'

Daily Mirror

Why some students are "bad" at math

With math scores on the decline, a professor explains that math isn't a natural skill, but a learned one

Salon

Math teachers in virtual classes tend to view girls and Black students as less capable

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What went wrong? Kansas Republicans point fingers after Schmidt’s loss to Gov. Kelly

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Oct. 24 received what could have been a useful development in the extremely close contest for governor: National assessment scores measuring math and reading had fallen among Kansas students.

Tribune News Service

Disparities in advanced math and science skills begin by kindergarten

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The Conversation

The midterm’s biggest loser: Donald Trump

That lesson should have turned off anyone who can do basic math. In the all-important game of political addition, Trump is a divider, not a multiplier, and he is quite literally a loser.

Chicago Sun-Times

Week 10 Mountain West Football Power Rankings

Week 10 Mountain West Football Power Rankings Four teams earned a first-place vote Contact/Follow @MWCwire Craziness at the top This week took a lot of math - that could be more of a me thing. Boise State fell to BYU last week and that meant their ...

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FTX-Binance dal: Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall stuns crypto world

Sam Bankman-Fried was supposed to be different than the run-of-the-mill crypto types. He was this wunderkind with a preternatural gift for math who had quickly built a crypto empire and then shrewdly expanded it during the worst of the industry’s meltdown this summer.

The Times of India

Jerry Zezima: Math confusion

Here is today’s test in basic arithmetic: If you had two grade-schoolers and one college graduate who happens to be the kids’ grandfather, and you gave each of them a math quiz, how many would flunk?

Tribune News Service

Scott blasted for Social Security plot

"Why put seniors through that?" Chuck Todd asked during a segment of Meet the Press

Salon

COVID disrupted decades of progress in math and reading

Only 26% of eighth graders performed at or above NAEP proficient level in math, according to the latest scores.

USAFacts

Why schools' going back to 'normal' won't work for students of color

National test results released in September 2022 show unprecedented losses in math and reading scores since the pandemic disrupted schooling for millions of children.

The Conversation

Former math teacher explains why some students are 'good' at math and others lag behind

When Frances E. Anderson saw the latest math scores for America’s fourth- and eighth-graders, she was hardly surprised that they had dropped. Until recently – including the period of remote instruction during the pandemic – Anderson taught high school math to students at all levels.“ Now she is a researcher…

The Conversation

Miserable Math and Reading Scores Will Fuel School Choice Movement

There’s no reason to argue over lessons and policies when you can pick what works for your family.

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The Independent UK

Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids

The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas affected the most, according to a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press

Chicago Sun-Times

COVID devastated education. This is a chance for renewal.

It isn’t as if America’s schools were going gangbusters before the pandemic. The Programme for International Student Assessment has consistently found that American students lag behind other advanced, industrialized countries.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois student test scores remain far below pre-pandemic levels in reading and math

Students in all racial and ethnic groups saw their scores drop since 2019, exacerbating historic achievement gaps between white and Asian students and other students of color.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Those math and reading scores were horrible, but beware of the political spin

There's nothing good to say about the newly-released national test scores in reading and math for fourth- and eighth-graders, showing sizable declines in the vast majority of states as a result of the pandemic.

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WEKU

‘Nation’s Report Card’ shows pandemic declines in Ky. reading and math

National standardized testing data show the pandemic has left far more Kentucky kids struggling to master basic reading and math skills.

WEKU

UK professor thinks anxiety could be behind why students struggle in Math

State leaders are working on how to raise the commonwealth’s standardized test scores in the future. One area where Kentucky students struggled was mathematics.

Axios

"Wake-up call" education test results

No state posted improvements in math — and those scores dropped in 51 states and jurisdictions since 2019.

Tribune News Service

Column: Parents can’t ignore math, reading declines on federal test

ATLANTA -- No one doubts that the COVID-19 pandemic hurt student learning. Now, much-anticipated test scores today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress pinpoint where impacts were greatest.

The Texas Tribune

Texas students’ math scores saw a sharp decline during pandemic

State math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress dipped significantly between 2019 and 2022, but reading scores for fourth and eighth graders held steady.

Los Angeles Times

Test scores across US reveal 'heartbreaking' pandemic declines, with math hit hard

LOS ANGELES — Eighth-graders in nearly every state across the nation and fourth-graders in a large majority of states, including California, saw significant drops in average math scores since the pandemic, reflecting "heartbreaking" academic setbacks for students across wide swaths of the country, according to the results of the "nation's…

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Student Math and Reading Scores Have Dropped Significantly Since 2019

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