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 ...

Even in the birthplace of microchips and iPhones, unequal access to advanced math starts early for many California students. Luis Castro Limon, an incoming senior in Pomona Unified, has seen the ...

Too many potential STEM students, especially Latino and Black students, are being filtered out of opportunities because of tracking and placement practices. Too many students of all races are being ...

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 ...

The Calculus Project puts underrepresented students in a cohort of their peers and empowers them to soar. What’s so discriminatory about that? On a hot day last summer, I roused two reluctant ...

OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

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