The Detroit Tigers promise they won’t panic. Just as they promised they weren’t panicking Thursday, Sept. 18, at Comerica Park when the Cleveland Guardians finished off a sweep, knocked out their ace ...

Fresh concerns about President Donald Trump’s plans for rolling out his pick for Federal Reserve chair shook traders Thursday, after a Wall Street Journal report said the announcement could come by ...

The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress—also known as the “Nation’s Report Card”—is now out. It shows 12th-graders’ performance slipping to a record low. According to the report, ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress released scores for the first time since the pandemic. It found that reading scores for high school seniors have hit a new low. Math scores for ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Sofia Cruz smiles while her classmates work on a project during a Lego-focused science lesson at de Zavala Middle School on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Irving. Ronaldo Bolaños / AP IRVING — Crowded ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Because I’m an investor, I receive an inordinate number of pitches from companies seeking funding. Like CORPUS, the Netherlands-based 9-story, 135-foot human-shaped structure that offers an ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...