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 ...

Sometimes all it takes is a good teacher. John Begeman and his five Selby Area classmates all earned 5s on the Advanced Placement calculus exam at the end of the school year — the highest score ...

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, ...