There are no shortcuts on the road to earning the required number of credits to graduate college. But there are head starts. By earning a sufficiently high score on an Advanced Placement exam, ...

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 ...

The table above shows the gender breakdown for 35 Advanced Placement subject exams taken by high school students in 2011, based on data just released in the subject supplement as part of the 8th ...

In a previous article, I described a massive change in the distribution of AP scores. There were some hints that this was coming. There was a 2021 conference on the English Literature and Language AP ...

In the past, the best students got accepted into Ivy Leagues, but that's no longer the reality. Instead, your teens should ...

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

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 ...

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 ...