Reader Juxtapositions

Jill Barshay:

The studies covered more than 8000 students in 11 states and found that students who used the (Saxon math) curriculum, on average, did 3 percentile points better on math assessments than those who did not use the curriculum.

Gretchen Reynolds:

But men who reported drinking two or three cups of coffee a day were 10 percent less likely to have died than those who didn’t drink coffee, while women drinking the same amount had 13 percent less risk of dying during the study.