Editor's note: Last week, we at EdSurge were a tad dismissive of Khan Academy's newly launched computer science program. Boy, did you let us have it! Dan Meyer, who has been sharp-tongued about Khan's ...

Ten students, most of them 11 th-graders striving to become the first in their families to attend college, gathered recently for an after-school program at the Boys and Girls Club in San Pedro. The ...

Seventh-grader Katilin Underwood mastered arithmetic on Friday and she has a shiny virtual patch to prove it. “We have a new badge,” said Egan Junior High teacher Courtney Cadwell, announcing ...