With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

Connecticut’s education chief remembers the response she got from several local school leaders in 2014 when her department mailed 20,000 letters urging high school students to enroll in advanced ...

The number of Kiski Area High School students taking Advanced Placement tests is nearly nine times higher than it was three years ago, and students are passing four times as many tests, according to ...

DePauw awards credit for a number of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs, including College Board AP, International Baccalaureate (IB), dual enrollment, advanced college, and A Levels.

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 ...

Sixty high schools across the United States have started offering Advanced Placement courses on African American studies amid the nationwide upheaval over race-based curriculum. The College Board, a ...

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 ...

College Board officials announced last week that they plan to improve their Advanced Placement courses and tests to promote deeper understanding of academic subjects among students. The nonprofit ...

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 ...

I read with interest the Commentary by Paul Von Blum (“Are Advanced Placement Courses Diminishing Liberal Arts Education?,” Sept. 3, 2008), in which he argues that the level of preparation he ...

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 ...