UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

The need for remedial math education at UC San Diego has soared over the last five years according to a report published this month by the university’s Senate Administration Workgroup on Admissions.

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

A collage of a young girl solving math problems using a marker and a young boy reading a math book. Many people prefer restaurants that specialize and perfect a certain type of cuisine — they don’t ...

Many people prefer restaurants that specialize and perfect a certain type of cuisine — they don’t want their barbecue restaurant to offer sushi, and see extensive menus as a worrisome sign of ...

My God, could you imagine trying to explain this debacle to any coal miner from 100 years ago? How we have all the safety technology a century can bring, but we’re still shoring up holes with timber?

Catholic Medical Center has reached settlements for two wrongful-death lawsuits connected to the work of a former cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Yvon Baribeau, who has come under fire in recent years for ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...