The College Board offers three Advanced Placement classes in math: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics. Successful completion of an AP math class is invaluable to many college-bound ...

Advanced Placement classes can set applicants apart in a competitive college admissions environment, demonstrating the ability to perform well on more challenging coursework. Experts say performing ...

If last year’s numbers are any indication, some 3 million students will be taking 5 million Advanced Placement exams this spring. These three-hour exams, offered in May each year, mark the culmination ...

High school students who want to take Advanced Placement Biology, AP Environmental Science, or AP Physics 2 can just log on at home and watch instructors at Rice University in Houston deliver the ...

If you’re one of the many high school students who’s not sure which advanced placement (AP) classes to take, we hope our list of the 6 easiest AP classes to take will give you some direction. Let’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of sophomore year, I hesitated before registering for 11th-grade classes. Most of my choices had been obvious, and English should have been too — I had already received approval to take ...

Kenneth S. Lawrence is the 2016 Muscogee County School District Teacher of the Year. Christine Hull is director of advanced learning and gifted programs for the district. In two essays below, they ...

Leaders of some of Washington, D.C.'s top private schools announced this week they are eliminating advanced placement classes by 2022, drawing attention to the “diminished utility” of the courses in a ...