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The typical teenagers high school life flies by, but normally not at more than 220 miles an hour. As a racing prodigy he's not living the life of a typical 19 year old college bound kid.

When you walk into Shauna Hawes’ classroom at Valley View Middle School in Pleasant Hill, it’s almost impossible to feel anything but optimistic. Everywhere you look, there seems to be a motivational poster of some sort. “Be Fearless! This is your time...

Editor’s note: The New York Times ranked the University of California, Irvine as the No. 1 school in the nation in a listing of colleges that do the most for low-income students. NYT website The Upshot compiled its 2015 College Access Index based on...

There comes a moment in students' lives – usually halfway through junior year of high school – when they realize they should stop putting off the inevitable and get going on college apps. To say this process is stressful is an understatement. The amount...

Earlier this month, more than a million high school seniors across the country committed to attend college. But a growing number of them aren’t going to set foot on campus in the fall, electing instead for a gap year—a trend that is leaving...