No parent, teacher, adviser, or other responsible educator would ever recommend, much less require, a student to take a course they had only a 20% chance of passing. But that is exactly the new policy ...

RED LION, Pa. - A 12-year-old boy goes to elementary school by day and attends a college calculus class by night. Tyler Spangler, a sixth-grade student in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, didn't start forming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Efforts to reform the way college calculus is taught began in the late 1980s, but more than 30 years later, many students are still struggling with the subject. At least one semester of calculus is ...

Contrary to widely-held opinion, taking high school calculus isn't necessary for success later in college calculus -- what's more important is mastering the prerequisites, algebra, geometry, and ...

Black Collegians and the Adelante Program expect to lose their specialized support math instructional tutor due to budget cuts.