Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The College Board is adding two new AP courses to its 70-year-old program. The goal is to respond to a changing industry, job ...

High school students immersed in Advanced Placement (AP) courses often wonder if the academic rigor of these courses will serve them well. The answer is a resounding yes. These are college-level ...

As standardized testing advances from all directions, teachers and administrators face a momentous choice: Are we mainly concerned with educating our students, or with ranking them? Recent news ...

The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for the college bound, the AP tests a chance for the best and ...

LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the College Board CEO and other school district leadership came together Tuesday to ...

An entering student at Pomona College last fall submitted the results of 14 Advanced Placement tests, all but one with the top score of 5. In all, 20 members of the entering class each reported the ...

The Advanced Placement program at Sharpstown High School has long been viewed as a haven for top students in the school’s magnet leadership learning community. Most of the Houston school’s other ...

Advanced Placement (AP) courses are college-level courses offered to high school students. There are 38 AP courses in the Arts, English, History & Social Science, Math & Computer Science, Science, and ...

Jacqueline Rabe Thomas’ excellent article about access to AP (Advanced Placement) courses being elusive for low income students should lead us all to ask why. It should also lead us to ask how we ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Let’s say you’re a high school student who expects to go to college. You’re lucky enough to be ...