The controversial city exam school “zip code” acceptance policy is being defended by outgoing school Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, but not everybody is celebrating. “We have to do a better job of ...

Lee Cheng graduated from San Francisco’s Lowell High School in 1985. He counts himself one of the lucky ones. Lowell High, which was the only local public school specifically for high-performing ...

This spring, Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, and the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science were named three of the top high schools in the country by US News and World Report.

Much of the attention on America’s exam schools—selective public high schools that accept only students with a certain grade-point average and who perform well on a special exam—has been directed ...