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The fix for the disposable formula habit in Excel is already on your screen. At the very bottom of your Excel window is a ...

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Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...