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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The College Board launched the Advanced Placement Capstone Diploma Program in 2014, giving high school students the chance to ...

Seven years. That’s roughly how long the College Board told Medill it would take to develop and implement a brand-new Advanced Placement Journalism class for high school students, according to Medill ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students who take Advanced Placement courses in high school appear more likely to graduate from college within four years and have higher grade point averages in college than similar students who aren ...

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 ...

The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) is developing a new initiative to expand virtual access to Advanced Placement college credit courses not offered in much of the state’s brick-and-mortar ...

Many colleges encourage future applicants to challenge themselves by taking rigorous courses in high school, such as Advanced Placement courses. AP courses can help high school students prepare for ...