This story was produced in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit news organization that partners with local newsrooms to deliver expert coverage of higher education. Alyssa Pfeifer always ...

Math has a bad reputation. Numbers are not glamorous, and those of us that never mastered the language of math try to forget the trauma of failed tests and endless erasure marks on worksheets. But the ...

"I know for me, I'm a lawyer because I was bad at [science and math]. [Laughter.] All lawyers in the room, you know it's true. We can't add and subtract, so we argue. [Laughter.]" Like the person ...

An app called Photo Math boasts the ability to solve math problems with the click of a smartphone camera, prompting a new round of an old debate: how much should students use technology in the ...

In recent years, research on the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields has proliferated. (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.) STEM jobs tend to be higher-paying ...

I’m a math teacher. The Secretary of Education’s fun with numbers is embarrassing. The Secretary of Education released a 155-page “school report card” two weeks before Town Meeting Day. It frames ...