American workers are falling behind those in other rich countries when it comes to basic skills such as reading a thermometer.

Even more disturbing, 12 percent of American adults are fully below Level 1, meaning they might be unable to perform basic addition and subtraction.

Both average and below-average students slid on the 2023 international math test. Source: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 1995-2023. Retrieved from NCES. Another way of ...

Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, a financial education nonprofit ...

So is it true that only geniuses can solve this math equation? I reached out to a mathematics professor to help me run the numbers on this tricky math problem.

Only 27% of U.S. adults passed a seven-question quiz about basic financial concepts, according to results from the FINRA Foundation’s latest National Financial Capability Study.

Declines on a version of the Nation's Report Card, or NAEP, for 13-year-olds show some of the sharpest declines in the test's history.

Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

That is according to a global test of adult know-how, which measures job readiness and problem-solving among workers in industrialized countries. The results, released Tuesday, largely show that ...