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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 81,000 New Jersey high school students took AP exams last year, recognizing their importance in the college application ...

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 ...

Until I sat down to write this opinion, even the possibility that a school would deprive its students of AP classes seemed nothing short of blasphemy– blasphemy against the religion of college ...

Advanced Placement (AP) courses can save you time and money. They can also give you an edge in the applicant pools of highly selective colleges and universities. The national AP program is ...

As the number of online Advanced Placement courses rises, more students are accessing those college-level classes than ever before. But teachers, students, and the governing body that authorizes such ...

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 ...

LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the College Board CEO and other school district leadership came together Tuesday to ...

One way for high school students to strengthen their transcripts and prepare for college is to enroll in Advanced Placement courses. AP offers rigorous coursework and the opportunity to earn college ...

More than 81,000 New Jersey high school students took AP exams last year, recognizing their importance in the college application process. According to statistics from College Board, AP courses are ...