BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific ...

At MIT, you can take a ton of science classes online. And, in true MIT fashion, Scott Young just did them all at an extraordinary speed. (He can probably solve a Rubiks Cube super fast too). He took ...

“You gotta settle down and get this done.” Not all eighth graders are ready for the abstract concepts — like variables, ...