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 ...

The MIT4America Calculus Project pairs trained college students with high schoolers across 14 districts, from Montana to Texas.

BRAINTREE - Did you like doing math in school? Many people didn't. But a non-profit in Massachusetts is increasing the number of students of color and low-income students in advanced level math ...

Lisa Rodriguez teaches Algebra II and Pre-Calculus Honors and is co-director of the Calculus Project at Brookline High. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

Learning Assistant Juan Ignacio Sanchez Quintana, center, works with a student in Calculus I class. FIU changed the way it teaches calculus, and managed to increase the pass rate. Miami, Florida, ...

Kelly Duong and Melanie Khiem both excelled in their math classes at Lowell High School and UMass Lowell. But they can’t say the same for many of their friends and classmates, especially after the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Many parents relish reliving moments from our childhoods through our children, and doing homework with them is its own kind of madeleine. For Steve Levitt of “Freakonomics” fame — who is, in his own ...

Students pursuing or likely to pursue majors in Mathematics, Chemistry, Geophysics, Geology-Geophysics, or Physics, or following the B.S. program in Computer Science, should take one of the Calculus ...