There’s a scene in the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver," where high school math teacher Jaime Escalante (played by Edward James Olmos) argues with the head of the school’s math program about the ...

Catherine Good has experienced stereotype threat herself, although she didn’t know it at the time. She started her academic career in pure math, expecting to get a Ph.D. But somewhere along the way ...

"I'm not good at math." It was an honest, offhand admission from CBC's Jeremy Eaton as he hosted Here and Now last week. And though Eaton did wind up writing a math placement test in Memorial ...

PULLMAN, Wash. – Just two emails, at the right time with the right message, can make a big difference for students who are the first in their families to go to college. A recent Washington State ...

The East China Normal University Press is at the center of a gender discrimination debate after publishing two versions of a math book, one for boys and the other for girls. The publishing house said ...