Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 65 and low of 44 degrees.

When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement — students must prove mastery of the subject but don’t have to take it ...

Palo Alto Unified will continue to offer multivariable calculus but not during the regular school day, district administrators stated last week. Courtesy Pixabay/Pexels.com. Palo Alto Unified School ...

Week 1 of the new semester is in the books, and with it the first week of the inverted calculus class Week 1 of the new semester is in the books, and with it the first week of the inverted calculus ...

SAN DIEGO — Editor's note: After this story aired and was posted live, a representative from the San Diego School District contacted CBS 8 and confirmed that Lincoln High School would again be ...

In this bleak time for public education, I’ve been straining to decipher some silver linings. I thought I caught sight of one recently when Richard Barrera, a school board member for San Diego Unified ...

Since eighth grade, Zoe Hubbard has known she wanted to design video games but not for late-night bouts of “Fortnite” or “League of Legends.” She wants her games to help people with Alzheimer’s ...

On Dec. 7, 2019, I — for the first time ever — was the talk of my high school. I became “the kid who got into Yale.” Most of my classmates gave me half-hearted congratulations with varying degrees of ...