Students like that taking AP courses saves them money and lets them earn college credit in high school. Hamasa Mashal is a junior at Turlock High School. This year, she is taking five AP classes: ...

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 market demand, as well as ways to best prepare students whether or not ...

The College Board over the last few years has bet on two new courses to boost participation of underrepresented students in the Advanced Placement program: AP African American Studies and AP ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. Despite these drawbacks, AP ...

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 College Board says schools that fail to teach topics outlined by the Advanced Placement program could lose AP designation for those classes. As a host of state legislatures and school districts ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Columbus McKinney is taking his fifth Advanced Placement course at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, undeterred even though he didn’t score high enough to get college credit ...

LaGuardia High School is backing away from a contentious plan to reduce Advanced Placement courses following an outcry from parents. Administrators at the arts-focused school — the basis of the TV ...

Corpus Christi ISD will start to offer the College Board AP Capstone Diploma Program, a pair of year-long AP courses designed to enhance and supplement other AP courses students may be taking, ...

Some 2.7 million students just finished taking 4.8 million Advanced Placement exams, according to The Washington Post. These three-hour exams, offered in May of each year, mark the culmination of ...

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 ...