For many years, I’ve stood with members of my congregation in our cemetery — not to bury a person, but to bury books. There are no eulogies. We lower tattered prayer books, weathered bibles, Passover ...

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday the next phase of his signature literacy initiative will be extended to more than 100 middle schools, though one much-criticized curricula was notably absent. Adams, ...

Michelle de Kretser first stunned me in 2020 with her small, perfect tribute “On Shirley Hazzard,” a brief work of outsize wisdom. But de Kretser had by then already earned fine notoriety with her ...

Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express. By Elizabeth A. Harris ...

Mathematics helps us understand the world, and in Paulina Rowińska’s Mapmatics: How we navigate the world through numbers, the focus is on its indispensability in the making of visual representations ...

Let’s start with the soapbox. I’ve been avoiding anything with the word “generative” in it since that became the buzzword for the current hype cycle. It has been presented as some revolution in ...

It's that time of year again. Superintendent Grenita Lathan has been visiting elementary classes to pass out bags of free books. This year, students are also receiving scholastic magazines and ...

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