A new program in Maine helps students learn math skills for the real world

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.

Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...
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Scottsdale Unified targets major increase in middle school algebra completion

Scottsdale Unified School District launches 'Math Powers Possibility,' an initiative to increase the number of students ...
IEEE

Multi-Task Collaborative Pre-Training and Adaptive Token Selection: A Unified Framework for Brain Representation Learning

Abstract: Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) reveals the structural organization of the brain. Learning general brain representations from sMRI is an enduring topic in neuroscience. Previous ...
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Why new math problems won’t solve our nation’s math problem

Contextualizing math is the path forward for math instruction across the country--making it relevant help students grasp ...
IEEE

Dexterous Pre-grasp Manipulation for Human-like Functional Categorical Grasping: Deep Reinforcement Learning and Grasp Representations

Abstract: Many objects such as tools and household items can be used only if grasped in a very specific way—grasped functionally. Often, a direct functional grasp is not possible, though. We propose a ...
GitHub

A Principle of Targeted Intervention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

This repository contains the official JAX implementation for the NeurIPS 2025 paper: A Principle of Targeted Intervention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. Our work introduces a principle for ...