Research suggests that pre-kindergarten may be too late to start trying to close persistent academic achievement gaps between Latino and white students.

Avoiding technical terms and keeping things simple is the goal for UCLA graduate students who are participating in Grad Slam, a contest that rewards students for speaking more like ordinary people.

Cal — with six natural history museums, among others — is the only school in the West to break into CollegeRank's top 10.

UC Berkeley researchers are using crowdsourcing to help map the location of edible weeds, and logging their findings on an app called iNaturalist.