There are two reasons to go to school: learn about something and to get a coveted piece of paper that helps you get jobs, or at least, job interviews. With so many schools putting material online, you ...

This past fall quarter, Stanford offered an introductory computer science class to more than 200 talented high school students from around the nation. When I first received the opportunity to serve as ...

There's a word floating around among students and staff at Antioch High School lately: Stantioch. Teacher Andrew Becker proudly coined the term after the school partnered with Stanford University to ...

Are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) a failure? Two years ago, their advocates predicted a revolution in higher education, with courses by the world’s leading lecturers offered free, or at low cost ...

Emma Pierson (@2plus2make5) is a Rhodes Scholar and computer science PhD student at Stanford. Computer science is wondrous. The problem is that many people in Silicon Valley believe that it is all ...