For decades, high school students hoping to attend the most selective colleges in the country have received the same recommendation: Take the most rigorous courses possible. And over that time, ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the percent of students Truman Bennet falls in. He is among 0.006% of students to achieve a perfect score on the exam this year ...

MISHAWAKA, Ind. — An Indiana high school student accomplished a feat no one else in the world could do this spring. Felix Zhang, a junior at Penn High School in Mishawaka, was the only student in the ...

REVERE — In high school, Robert Stoica stayed after class for calculus help. Now a freshman at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Stoica, 18, said classmates turn to ...

Yom, as the students call their Lincoln High calculus teacher, is at the blackboard with marker in hand. He can’t be stopped. Left to right he works, light on his feet, flicking out triangles, ...

If students aren’t adequately prepared for college-level math courses in high school, it can make completing a college degree more difficult, with some students needing to spend time and money on ...

Two years ago, I encountered an accelerated math class at a public school in Pasadena, Calif., that I found hard to believe. Six eighth-graders — four boys and two girls — were taking Advanced ...