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Yale should get credit for acknowledging that its grading system has lost credibility, and its proposed reforms are worth ...

Kids can lose the skills they learned during the school year over summer break. Here’s how to help.

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G.T. School is the gifted-and-talented branch of the same network, just a few miles north of Austin's city limits. Pamela Hobart is its gifted-and-talented-education evangelist. Trained in philosophy ...

For weeks, Lauren noticed her son Evan seemed unusually relaxed during the drive home from school. He would talk about sports, friends, and random things that happened during the day, but he never ...

Math equations used to be a daily chore for many elementary schoolers. But entering adulthood means those less mathematically inclined often never have to think about them ever again. And it appears ...

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The first round of the 2026 NBA Draft is over, which means players such as AJ Dybantsa and Darryn Peterson finally heard their names called to begin their professional careers. After months of ...

The fireworks for the 2026 NBA Draft seemed to go off a day early. The Giannis Antetokounmpo trade to Miami stole the headlines in the morning, and when the NBA Draft itself got underway... it largely ...

Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com. In addition to editing content, Alex also covers breaking news, writing about crime and severe weather as well as everything from multistate lottery ...