When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement — students must prove mastery of the subject but don’t have to take it ...

Part of the premise of Good Will Hunting is that if you’re smart enough, you should skip formal education and teach yourself with books. And that was before prestigious universities started uploading ...

No parent, teacher, adviser or other responsible educator would ever recommend, much less require, a student to take a course ...

This post continues the series of posts about the inverted/flipped calculus class that I taught in the Fall. This post continues the series of posts about the inverted/flipped calculus class that I ...

For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus. In a recent national survey of 133 admissions officers, 74% said the ...

More than a decade ago, when Adrian Mims was working on his dissertation, he uncovered a confusing pattern in Black students’ math trajectories in the suburban district he was studying. While many ...

Palo Alto and Gunn High School education councils, which are made up of teachers and staff, declined to offer Multivariable Calculus as a high school course, instead opting to pick up a newly ...

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 ...

Alumni of Palo Alto public schools shared their perspective on the change, which will allow students to take post-calculus ...