The U.S. Department of Education has decided for the first time to sit out an international study designed to show how advanced high school students around the world measure up in math and science.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Excellent news! The 2015 TIMSS test results are out. This is one of two international ...

This article originally appeared in Sense Made Here. About a week ago, Nick Kristof published this op-ed in the New York Times. Titled “Are You Smarter Than an 8th Grader?,” the piece discusses ...