When the political scientist Andrew Hacker published The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions earlier this year, he didn’t break the internet. But he certainly stirred up the math establishment in ...

A column by Virginia Warfield of the University of Washington suggests that the rising storm of criticism of Washington state K-12 math education is based on myths ("Many math 'truths' are in fact ...

Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford without the aid of makeup or prosthetics. That was part of the joke -- a snarky 32-year-old preppie playing a stolid Midwesterner, an accidental president who despite ...

I love debates, as frequent readers of this column know. I learn the most when I am listening to two well-informed advocates of opposite positions going at each other. I have held several debates here ...

Should we be worried that young girls are not pursuing math-related careers at the same rate as young men? After all, in our technological era, many of tomorrow’s well-paying jobs will require ...