Each November, students and schools face a deadline for registering for exams for the College Board’s Advanced Placement fall-semester and yearlong courses. These exams are taken in May and depending ...

For decades, Advanced Placement classes have offered a means for ambitious high school students to earn a boost toward college. More than 60 percent of U.S. high schools offer AP classes, which are ...

Annie Abrams is a high school English teacher with a doctorate in American literary history from New York University. She has received well-deserved praise for her new book, “Shortchanged: How ...

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 ...

On the heels of a controversy over how to teach African American studies, another showdown over Advanced Placement courses could be brewing in Florida, this time over AP Psychology, as the nonprofit ...

NEW YORK — This May, students will power up their computers instead of sharpening pencils, as Advanced Placement Exams go digital—offering a more secure, streamlined, and student friendly testing ...

The explosion of free online education, known mainly for targeting adults, is reaching ever further into high schools. On Wednesday, a new sequence of lessons for high school Advanced Placement ...

Cole Kubisiak is done with high school. He graduated from Wausau West High School in June, but he waited another month before he heard back about his Advanced Placement exams. On Tuesday, he was ...

Two-thirds of college-level courses offered at secondary schools meet academic requirements allowing them to be called Advanced Placement courses, and some of the remaining third, which are still ...

Officials overseeing the Advanced Placement program have announced that they intend to drop AP classes and exams in four subject areas, in a pullback expected to affect about 12,500 students and 2,500 ...