In 2012 I, along with a group of like-minded colleagues, signed up to take on an audacious goal: we helped open New York City’s first public high school focused on computing. We didn’t know it at the ...

A guy I know posted a question about math and school grades on Facebook the other day. It started like this, “If someone missed 14 of 50 questions on a test…that should work to a 78 percent, right?

Pop quiz: you’re a student in a classroom of 30 students, and you’re stuck on a math concept. What’s worse, you just arrived at this school mid-year and you’re actually two grade levels behind in math ...