High school students are constantly seeking ways to stand out in college applications and prepare themselves for the rigors of higher education. Advanced Placement (AP) courses have emerged as a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Carroll High School history teacher Tracie Jensen’s classroom, advanced placement students are asked to think deeply about the ...

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, ...

The Advanced Placement program has served as an educational opportunity for advanced education for the last seven decades. As Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan document in their book about the past, ...

The Advanced Placement program has long provided a stepping stone to college-level work for high school students. But as a growing number of states enact bans or restrictions on teaching about ...