There’s been a big push in recent years to get students coding. Before that, the big skill was learning to use word processing software. And before that, typing. Now there’s a movement to bring the ...

correctionA previous version of this article quoted the founder of Just Equations as saying data showed many high school students who take Algebra II struggle in the course. The data showed they ...

During first period at Francis Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley, Monica Casillas asked her students to line up in order by height so she could organize a human representation of a ...

You can listen to this episode of the MindShift Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, NPR One, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. There are many reasons students don’t like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UC Berkeley will open a new college focused on computing and data science. (Josh Edelson / For The Times) They comb through troves ...

From the backlogs of history books to the latest Yak, the world is full of data, and for those who can read the patterns, possibilities for analyzing human behavior abound. UC Berkeley is piloting a ...

Data science can help inform decision-making in a vast array of fields, but there are few sectors where it can be more consequential than in health care. Christian Wernz, a lecturer at the University ...

Bailey Heugly, right, records the length a ruler dropped to recreate an experiment on reaction time (how long it takes to respond to a stimulus) during a data science class at Lehi High School in ...

Jasmin Perez is in math class, and her assignment is to figure out how likely she is to die. It’s an unusual exercise in the world of high school math, where most students are calculating angles or ...

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis they collected on student stress levels. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The ...