Last fall, the Stanford Mathematics Department introduced a new course titled MATH 18: “Foundations for Calculus.” The addition was a major step in the department’s ongoing efforts to make its ...

“It’d be like if you took everyone in CS 106A, put them in 106B or X and told them, ‘Have fun, some Java is necessary, but we’re Stanford so we expect you to know that already,” C.J. told me Sunday ...

Kenan Hasanaliyev is a standout student at Triangle Math and Science Academy. In sixth grade, he was piling up math credits, placing him three grades ahead. He didn't stop there. He mastered AP ...

The world is a classroom for 15-year-old Palo Alto resident Sahana Vasudevan. On a given day the home-schooled teen — recently named a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search — might study ...