Michael R. Bloomberg The crisis in US K-12 public education continues to deepen, and decisions by many colleges and universities to abandon SAT and ACT scores are making it worse. Instead of demanding more accountability from high schools, colleges are expecting less. In the latest dismal signs for students, scores on the ACT college entrance exam have fallen to the ...

Parmy Olson You have to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg. In the face of criticism about the radical strategic shift he has chosen for Facebook, he is stubbornly focused on turning it into a metaverse company. Other tech billionaires may lash out at dissent, but Zuckerberg remains stoic, tuning out the noise to give earnest interviews and presentations about his ...

Unilever Plc raised its sales forecast for this year after pushing through the biggest increase in prices in its history amid rampant inflation. The maker of Knorr stock cubes now expects sales this fiscal year to increase more than 8%, up from a prior range of 4.5% to 6.5%, after reporting a better than expected third quarter. However, the group ...