One solution to the skills shortage is to encourage more young people to learn vocational skills. But there is still a stigma ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing earlier this year, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and Education Secretary Linda ...

Christmas came early for young students at the Demonstration School for the Deaf and the Akropong School for the Blind, as Telecel Ghana Foundation ...

Americans staring down record-high electric bills are being told relief is on the horizon, as the nation’s top energy ...

In his last performance in Iowa City, jazz great Herbie Hancock mentioned how he felt “at home in Iowa” because of his years ...

Again, the secret is how you’re wrapping all the way around the item. A diamond orientation means you’re folding over right ...

The National Wrestling Alliance remembered Regal for his "flashy and charismatic" style and "paving a path for generations to ...

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to send Americans $2,000 checks funded by his sweeping tariffs is under fire for not adding up. Trump, 79, pledged to send rebates to U.S. citizens who are “low and ...

Re “Dismal student test scores deserve boos, not cheers” (Oct. 17): I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many students had ...