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Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics.” He was much more than an ...

A bill moving through California’s legislature would require schools to test kindergarteners' math skills.

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