Across the nation, kids are heading back to school. It’s an exciting time. I remember both the joy and the nervousness that came with my now twin 13-year-olds' first starting school. In fact, one day ...

Melissa Francis shot down proposals backing free health care for illegal immigrants on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" simply because of the math. “We already can’t pay for 'Medicare-for-all,'” she said.

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 ...

Are boys really better at math than girls? Nah, that doesn’t add up. That’s according to new research out of Carnegie Mellon University. Neuroscientists looked at young boys’ and girls’ brains, and ...

Dr. Jo Boaler’s Piedmont Education Speaker Series talk on “The Myth of the Math Brain” has been rescheduled from 7:30 to 9 p.m. April 17 at Ellen Driscoll Auditorium at Havens Elementary School at 323 ...

When the federal government dips into the consumer basket of goods and services and calculates how much the cost has changed from the prior year and then raises Social Security by a comparable ...

I'll keep it brief this week, so we can enjoy the holiday weekend. There's not much to say anyway. The Dow is down for its fourth straight week and the other major indices are not doing much better.

During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden asserted that more than 3 million Americans are already “employed in the clean energy economy.” He then boasted that, “if executed strategically, our ...

Lecia Barker doesn’t buy the pervasive argument that girls learn math and science differently than boys do, and that the difference ultimately turns off girls to these types of careers. In fact, today ...

“Fool me once,” Stephen King wrote, “shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.” His adage certainly applies to the myth (and fake math) of green jobs. During ...