Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. College Board Creates New AP Courses: Here’s What To Know The College Board is adding two new AP courses to its 70-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students like that taking AP courses saves them money and lets them earn college credit in high school. Hamasa Mashal is a junior ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next week, students across the country will sit for the Advanced Placement exams. Administered by the College Board, AP courses and their accompanying exams have long been regarded as benchmarks for ...

Advanced Placement courses give students a chance to strengthen their transcripts by demonstrating academic rigor, and earn college credits. But these courses aren’t offered at every high school.

The Advanced Placement program has served as an educational opportunity for advanced education for the last seven decades. As Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan document in their book about the past, ...

Advanced Placement exams are one of the most influential (and oft-controversial) forces shaping high schools today. That’s why it’s a big deal when AP embarks on a new direction, such as launching its ...

In 2021, just 17% of of high school students taking the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition test earned top ...

If students aren’t adequately prepared for college-level math courses in high school, it can make completing a college degree more difficult, with some students needing to spend time and money on ...

Some years ago, I was invited to speak at a national convention of high-school teachers of Advanced Placement (AP) psychology courses. AP courses, as you probably know, are high-school courses ...