Few contest the power of effective teaching in the classroom, yet even fewer have come to terms with whether great teachers are born or made.

About 34,000 California high school students took credit bearing community college courses in 2014. This year, nearly 50,000 high school students took at least one college course, a 47% increase.

College application essays in general, and the UC personal insight statements in particular, are a preview to the kind of writing most students will encounter in college and beyond.

Back in 1968, about 13% of Bachelor degrees awarded were in business, making it the third most popular major at the time. Today, about one out of every five Bachelor degrees awarded are in business...

The liberal arts and humanities have been declared insignificant, inconsequential, irrelevant, and by some, dead.  Any undergraduates with their wits functioning are coding, considering engineering or figuring out what other areas within STEM warrant exploration.

There are no guarantees when it comes to admission into MIT, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, Olin School of Engineering-to name but a handful of the most selective engineering programs. A number of students have applied to these programs with perfect GPAs, SAT scores, and a satchel of extracurricular activities and found inexplicable rejection.

There are over 27,000 high schools in the United States. Each graduates a valedictorian and a salutatorian: both of whom probably feel adequately qualified to apply to some of the most selective colleges in the country.

Making Harvard undergraduate education tuition free while making the Harvard admissions process transparent, so that all applicants are on a level playing field, is the quest of a group of five Harvard alumni.

Cheating on taxes is a global phenomenon.

Cheating on the SAT is an equally global phenomenon. News from a group of Reuters investigative reporters confirmed that the scope of cheating on the SAT in Mainland China, South Korea, Hong Kong, and even Egypt and Saudi Arabia appears profound.