In this recent story, I wrote about the basic life skills that some adults have yet to learn. This ranged from knowing how to ...

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Because professors are warning that these students, with straight-A GPAs, can't do basic things like math. California high school grads score 4.0 GPAs but can't do ...

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A Berkeley mathematics professor is sounding the alarm that many students are woefully unprepared when they arrive at college because the University of California system's progressive "test-blind" ...

The number of recipients of the nation's Basic Livelihood Security Program increased by 6.1 percent last year from a year earlier, with more than 1 in 10 seniors receiving government assistance, ...

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...