For over a decade, I’ve been deeply involved in San Diego Unified schools with my three kids. I’ve volunteered in classrooms, on school site councils, parent organizations and countless district ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy ...

The number of freshmen entering the University of California San Diego whose math skills fall below a high-school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a shocking ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

Across the U.S., thousands of acres of wine grapes have gone unsold due to declining wine sales and overflowing wine inventories. But some growers are fighting back with proactive and longterm ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who was just elected New York City’s next mayor, built his campaign around making the Big Apple more affordable. And one of his major promises was ...

The mayor-elect built his campaign around rent affordability. But the same issue applies across the country, according to experts - and the many people struggling to pay their rent each month.

Waiters and deliverymen receive tips. But so do receptionists, government clerks and hospital nurses. And with Egypt stuck in an economic crisis, even the cost of tipping is inflating. By Vivian Yee ...

Washington has an urgent math problem. Nearly one in three students cannot demonstrate basic grade-level skills, and among low-income students it’s almost one in two. In a state that prides itself on ...

SONOMA, Calif.—The U.S. wine industry hasn’t had it this bad since Prohibition. The list of problems is long in California, the cradle of American wine. Vineyards have an oversupply of grapes. People ...