Meet the 125 Most Influential People in Orange County for 2025

Here are selections, made with your help, of the 125 people who were vital parts of Orange County’s story for 2025.

People Who’ve Met "Uneducated Geniuses" Are Sharing What They Were Like, And All I Can Say Is Wow, The Human Mind Is Wild

Have you ever met someone who was incredibly smart but had little or no formal education?" People had A LOT of examples to ...

Rule Breaker Investing Mailbag: Be a for Person, Not an Against Person

From Gratitude Challenge triumphs to a brand-new five-stock sampler, from Winter Soldier fortitude to navigating concentrated ...
Green Bay Press-Gazette

Not a 'math person?' No worries; here's how Green Bay area schools are changing math class

Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...
The Stanford Daily

Class of 2029 enrollment data shows largest Asian, White percentage in three years

On Tuesday morning, the University released its preliminary admissions data for the undergraduate class of 2029. With a total of 1,866 first-year and 90 transfer students enrolling, this class marks ...
Bloomberg L.P.

For Too Many American Kids, Math Isn’t Adding Up

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...
The Diplomat

Why the New Hangor-Class Submarines Are Crucial for the Pakistan Navy

Pakistan’s naval chief recently revealed that the navy will soon commission the first batch – at least three submarines – of its Hangor-class submarines in 2026. These submarines are a generation ...
Newsweek

Dad ‘Embarrassed’ To Be Struggling With Daughter’s Third-Grade Math Problem

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...
The Washington Post

A school returns its senior class shirts after design is flagged as racist

A Montgomery County high school recently returned its senior class T-shirts after administrators said the design celebrated the class of 2026 in a way that “evokes the N-word,” according to a recent ...
Wall Street Journal

The Numbers Six and Seven Are Making Life Hell for Math Teachers

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...
Reason

Court Upholds Three-Day Suspension of "Third-Grade Math and Science Teacher" for Maintaining "LGBTQ+"-Themed Books in Classroom

An excerpt from Monday's long decision by Judge Douglas Cole (S.D. Ohio) in Cahall v. Cole New Richmond Exempted Village School Dist. Bd. of Ed.: Plaintiff Karen Cahall is a third-grade math and ...