University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), has had its free online algebra and pre-calculus courses approved for credit by the by the American Council on Education (ACE). The approval by ACE will ...

La Cañada High School student Peter Tran is proud to have completed his first Advanced Placement class, in psychology, with the highest marks of any student in his class. But what he is most excited ...

Udacity, a start-up company offering free online courses, last week canceled a course, “Logic and Discrete Mathematics,” that was due to begin this summer, saying the lectures and materials it had ...

Kentucky officials plan to help high-school students prepare for college by expanding the use of online tools, like advanced-placement courses and a math test administered over the Internet. State ...

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will give students a leg up in math with classes designed to bridge the gap between high school and college. A $50,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates ...

Free online courses have run into a backlash of late. But a handful of community colleges may have found a way to dial up open-source content to help tackle one of higher education’s thorniest ...

If you’re a student at one of California’s community colleges and you plan to study a STEM field, you’ll typically have to pass calculus first before diving into many of the other required classes in ...