‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...
Carlmont High Scot Scoop

Editorial: Grade inflation shifts focus from growth to standing out

At too many high schools across the nation, getting an A — or even straight A’s — doesn’t feel like an achievement, but the bare minimum. Inflated GPAs have become the norm in college admissions, as ...
Bleacher Report

QB Report Cards for 2025 NFL Week 13

During the NFL's Week 13 action, two different divisional leads changed hands, while the top of the NFC is now occupied by a different squad compared to a week ago. Plenty involves the quarterbacks ...
Nature

‘Tiny’ AI model beats massive LLMs at logic test

A small-scale artificial-intelligence model that learns from only a limited pool of data is exciting researchers for its potential to boost reasoning abilities. The model, known as Tiny Recursive ...
Wall Street Journal

Harvard Says It’s Handing Out Too Many A’s. Students Are Fighting Back.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is leading the administration’s fight against elite universities. She sat down with WSJ to discuss her thinking and if there is room for compromise. Photo: Greg ...
Ars Technica

Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...
The Atlantic

Why Students Are Obsessed With ‘Points Taken Off’

Harvard is worried about going soft. Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students. According to an “Update on Grading and Workload” from the ...
PCGamesN

Re-Logic confirms the Terraria 1.4.5 release window, and it finally feels real after three years in the making

Back when I first reported the existence of Terraria 1.4.5 in January 2023, creator Andrew 'Redigit' Spinks described it as a smaller project to tie up a few loose ends, with the team eager to start ...