Last year, the Stanford Undergraduate Admissions Office changed its high school math curriculum recommendations for prospective applicants, emphasizing conceptual math courses such as algebra and ...

Stanford bills itself as giving its students one of the best educations in the world. While that may be true, it’s hard to feel that way when you’re, say, a freshman slogging through Math 51. Or Chem ...

UC Berkeley professor Jelani Nelson and Stanford University professor Jo Boaler have been entangled in controversy after criticisms of Boaler’s work arose last week. The backdrop for this conflict is ...

Aman Kumar spends Monday nights in Stanford's math department plunging into theorems for fun. He gets no credit for this. It sucks up precious time. But like dozens of other students, Kumar is there ...