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, ...

MIDDLETOWN, Md. (AP) — Kundan Chintamaneni’s mother cannot keep up with the star calculus student’s use of sticky notes and scrap paper to solve the latest problem in the array of competitions he is ...

The number of minority high school students taking Advanced Placement classes has risen fourfold in a decade, but college aspirants of color, especially from low-income families, continue to ...

Due to incomplete information provided by Polk County Public Schools, an earlier version of this story was incomplete, leaving out Lake Wales High School and Discovery High School. The data show that ...