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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. 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 ...

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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 ...

A new report out of the University of California San Diego is raising educational alarm bells as American students fall further behind. As public schools continue to fail the children of the United ...