Last year, senior Ritika Tappeta walked into her AP Biology class excited for the year ahead. Instead, she was severely disappointed. By the end of the year, the class had completed three of the eight ...
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 ...
A new national grant at Union College is trying to increase diversity among scientists by improving introductory college science classes, because that’s when most students drop out of STEM Union ...
The Post’s special section on the Jouney to College. Lest you think your high school curriculum doesn’t matter, rest assured it does. And it may very well forge your future regarding what colleges ...
College science lectures are a big bore to students and need to be replaced with hands-on classes where they can actually learn better, a team of experts said Thursday. “Revolutionary” courses that ...
Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...
Alicia Bettencourt, a data science teacher at Hueneme High School, helps a student with an assignment. Bettencourt is one of eight educators teaching data science classes at Oxnard Union High School ...
Growing up in Englewood, Soyini Walton said she was directed into transcription and stenography classes while she watched her male peers walk around with slides and discuss algebra. She always ...
Navigating science classes at Yale is often a daunting task: courses tend to have prerequisites, reputations of high workloads or both. Yale College requires each student to take at least two science ...