This past week, several reports were distributed, describing how the College Board had begun a process of recalibrating (which they call validating) Advanced Placement (AP) scores. What does this mean ...

High school students may be offered the opportunity to take Advanced Placement classes, considered equivalent to a college-level course. These classes tend to be more challenging and offer a number of ...

More and more high school students are enrolling in Advanced Placement courses with the hope that the experience will better prepare them for college and boost their chances in the application process ...

WHAT makes for a successful accelerated-learning student can be boiled down to motivation and attitude. Several years ago I took the summer training to be an Advanced Placement United States History ...

Only about half of the nation’s rural school districts have students enrolled in college-level Advanced Placement courses, and those students have lower AP success rates than their non-rural peers, ...

Responding to long-standing criticism that its high school Advanced Placement (AP) courses were too broad and that students who took the classes had to rush through overwhelming amounts of material ...

More high-school students are taking Advanced Placement exams than ever—just as questions about their value are growing. At least 20 states now require public universities to award credit for strong ...

High school students take advanced placement classes to prepare for the rigors of college coursework. Yet, retired teacher Junia Yearwood says, in some schools, students who are unprepared are being ...

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 ...