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 ...

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, ...

Taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to nudge more students into Advanced Placement classes — but a close look at test scores suggests much of the investment has been ...

A student writes notes in an Advanced Placement Physics class in 2014 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington. (Charles Dharapak/AP) Perspective by Jay Mathews Chester E. “Checker” Finn ...

Advanced Placement classes are difficult – there is no way around it. Even the most outstanding students sometimes falter in their AP courses, and understandably so. After all, these classes are ...

In the 1950s, mired in the thick of the Cold War, a small group of educators — all White men at elite institutions — came up with an idea. What if promising high school students could take advanced ...

The College Board has announced it will begin offering an Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course at 60 unnamed high schools across the U.S. this fall, CBS News has learned. The AP ...

More public high school students are taking Advanced Placement courses and exams than at any time since 2018. The number of Michigan students taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes in 2023 increased ...

Georgetown University has one of the best political science programs in the country. The university is also one of the most competitive, with an admission rate of 15 percent. In the past 13 years, our ...