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Results of a key international assessment of 15-year-old students around the world show no improvement for the U.S. Results of a key international assessment of 15-year-old students around the world show no improvement for the U.S. The academic performance of U.S. students is holding steady on a key international test, but no one is celebrating.

What better way to celebrate the upcoming holiday season than by feasting on Chik-fil-A strips and fries in AP Calculus BC Class? Arthur L. Johnson High School teachers Susan Merlo and Edward Grande, pictured in the back of the classroom, sprung for the snack.

It's all very well calling for a revolution in data for use in post-2015 development, but what might such a revolution involve? The UN high-level panel report, which called for such a revolution earlier this year , gives little in terms of specifics, and the term itself was coined to get people talking, a European Development Days 2013 meeting ... (more)

The official federal poverty rate measures pretax income - period. It doesn't consider government benefits such as food stamps, nor does it factor in the costs of housing, taxes and child care, all of which vary greatly across states and help determine how rich or poor people feel.

The donations were funded through a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics grant the college received in 2012 for Hispanic-serving institutions from the U.S. Dept.

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec.4 By Fatih Karimov - Trend: The head of the Statistical Center of Iran, Adel Azar, has rejected claims of ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about current president Hassan Rouhani's report on his first 100-day in office, IRNA reported on December 4. All the data announced by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani related to the ... (more)

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Grade 6 students work as a group on their EQAO standardized test preparations at Lougheed Middle School in Brampton, Ont., on May 16, 2013.

I thought there was no possibility other than full steam ahead and damn the torpedoes."

An out-of-this-world sex scene invoking stars, supernovas and statisticians has won U.S.-based writer Manil Suri the uncoveted Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

A tiger shark is pictured above. Hawaii has faced a spate of shark attacks on humans this year, raising safety concerns.

In an opinion piece for the New York Daily News , published in July, mathematician Edward Frenkel and school superintendent Robert Ross write: This Fourth of July will forever be remembered in the history of science as the day when the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced.

"Fast and The Furious" Star Dies in Fiery Car Crash." "Bronx Train Derailment Kills Four" Those are the headlines.

To determine the nature of infinity, mathematicians face a choice between two new logical axioms.

Today, that changed. Tbe OECD released its PISA global rankings that showed how students in various countries were doing in reading, science, and math.

A graphic released with the 2012 PISA results shows the annualized change in performance in average math scores between 2003 and 2012.

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Empirical claims on poverty, which are based on firsthand observation, are usually met with a wall of skepticism on the part of political officials.

If Florida were a country, its 15-year-olds would fall well short of their international peers in math, science and reading.

It is very difficult to obtain accurate information on the dangers from Fukushima radiation to residents of the West Coast of North America and Hawaii.