Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus.

In recent years, math educators and advocates have pushed to diversify high school course offerings, introducing new pathways that culminate in statistics or data analysis. But new research suggests ...

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For more than 30 years, calculus has been seen as the pinnacle of high school math—essential for careers in the hard sciences, and an explicit or unspoken prerequisite for top-tier colleges. But now, ...

A Grade 12 student in Surrey has made history. This year, he was one of more than 267,000 students to take an internationally renowned calculus exam. He scored a perfect mark, making him the sixth ...

Student Lila Conley works on a calculus problem during the Bridge to Calculus summer program at Northeastern University. Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign ...