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A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday. Kane Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first…

As lawmakers across the U.S. advance measures that prohibit teaching "critical race theory" and holding classroom discussions on gender and sexual identity, they’re also expanding their scope to monitor everything from books to teaching modalities that center on feelings.

Education officials release four examples among the 54 math textbooks they rejected last week because of ‘prohibited topics’

From the first woman to win a Nobel Prize to the discoverer of jumping genes, here are some of the women who have made major contributions to science and mathematics.