During my visits to several schools in villages and nearby semi-urban areas, I encountered a troubling contradiction at the ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Taxes are going up. Debt is skyrocketing. Priorities are out of whack. The government is rounding up citizens. And what are the parties doing? Gerrymandering for power. What is the president doing?

A debt-to-equity ratio is a number calculated by dividing a company's total debt by the value of its shareholders' equity. A debt-to-equity ratio is one data point used by investors and lenders to ...

Leverage ratios compare a company's debt to financial metrics like equity or earnings. High leverage ratios suggest potential default risks, guiding investors on company selection. Industry-specific ...

The Sloan Ratio is a financial metric that evaluates the quality of a company’s earnings by examining the proportion of accruals in its earnings. Developed by Richard Sloan, it is widely used to ...

The Equity to Asset Ratio (EAR) is a financial metric that measures the proportion of a company’s assets that are financed by its shareholders’ equity. This ratio gives investors and analysts an ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...