Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

EdSource · School leaders grapple with Supreme Court decision on religious rights This post was updated to clarify benefits of the program to Oakland Unified students. A growing number of students in ...

At left: Pierce, far right, organized an event called "The Many Faces of Science" at Forbes College this past fall to introduce undergraduate women to fields in which they are often underrepresented, ...