After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

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From the perspective of a math educator, this is not a minor abuse of statistics but a failure of epistemic responsibility, one that undermines the possibility of public reasoning itself. Mr. Trump’s ...

The internet has always thrived on stupid questions. Despite decades of asking them in online forums, on social media and to search engines, humans still seem to have an infinite supply of these ...

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Carolyn Hax can’t get to every question she receives, so every week we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit their advice. Out of the many great responses we receive, we select a ...

It’s time to stop asking people this boring, basic question. Without even realizing it, you might be inadvertently killing a potential connection by mindlessly asking “How are you?” Not only is it ...

One afternoon, while I was supervising carpool, a former student’s parent drove up in his impeccable red Corvette, leaned out the window, and said, "Tara, would you like to go out sometime?" I said to ...