It’s September, and all across the country high school seniors are setting up their Common Application accounts, retaking SATs, and struggling to write (or procrastinating the writing of) 650 words ...

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Amid the many signs of underperformance in American education, the growth and geographic spread of Advanced Placement courses in high schools is a widely admired success story. For several decades, AP ...

Calculus is expected to be difficult; it should not be impossible. But, too often, this course becomes a gatekeeper that pushes students out of careers in science, technology, engineering and math — ...

In recent years, math educators and advocates have pushed to diversify high school course offerings, introducing new pathways that culminate in statistics or data analysis. But new research suggests ...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that to succeed in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) field, one needs a solid foundation in mathematics. When my sons entered college, even ...

Tyler Spangler’s first college class is less than a couple of weeks away, and he’s pretty calm about it, even though he’s still in elementary school. “We don’t have much homework,” he said with a ...

Machines are getting better at maths – artificial intelligence has learned to solve university-level calculus problems in seconds. François Charton and Guillaume Lample at Facebook AI Research trained ...

Calculus. For many high school students, it's the Mt. Everest of high school courses, the pinnacle of curricular attainment. "My daughter's taking Calculus!" is a phrase that's meant to impress ...

Submission hiccups, registration problems, outdated computer browsers and plain old human error have dampened the roll-out of online Advanced Placement exams this ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. – Tyler Spangler’s first college class is less than a couple of weeks away, and he’s pretty calm about it, even though he’s still in elementary school. “We don’t have much homework,” ...