A Times Union analysis of high-need school districts found that teacher turnover can play a pivotal role in student success.

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Bill Kurtis, the veteran broadcast journalist known for his rich voice, is retiring from the irreverent NPR news quiz show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” after serving as its judge and scorekeeper for a ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and fat-shaming questions included on ninth-grade Algebra I quizzes, according to ...

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Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa & Co. are recommending that teachers stop giving timed math quizzes, writes The Post Editorial Board. AP Proving once again that children’s interests are the ...