Since 2002, the AP World History course has covered thousands of years of human activity around the planet, starting 10,000 years back. But now the College Board, which owns the Advanced Placement ...

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 ...

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MASSACHUSETTS - AUGUST 09: Collegeboard Hosts an "AP African American Studies" activation during the 21st Annual Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival on August 09, 2023 ...

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 ...

Some of Nebraska’s brightest high school students are getting a skewed vision of American history in a course meant to give them a leg up on college, a Nebraska official says. John Sieler, a ...

The state Senate suggested Wednesday that Georgia should all but ban Advanced Placement U.S. history courses statewide, saying education officials needed to protect students from a “radically ...

Advanced Placement (AP) courses are college-level courses offered to high school students. There are 38 AP courses in the Arts, English, History & Social Science, Math & Computer Science, Science, and ...

After an earlier post Thursday responding to a letter in which some Grant High School parents worried about losing AP classes, my colleague Betsy Hammond forwarded this memo from Vivian Orlen, Grant ...

Oklahoma legislators are reworking a bill which would grant authority to the State Board of Education to replace national Advanced Placement history curriculum and testing. HB 1380 was introduced by ...

It’s 8:30 in the morning, and the day is cold and rainy–conditions that, biologically, make it nearly impossible for the average teenager to function. Yet the 10 boys and eight girls who pour into the ...