This past week, several reports were distributed, describing how the College Board had begun a process of recalibrating (which they call validating) Advanced Placement (AP) scores. What does this mean ...

AP exams are scored on a scale of 1 on the lowest end to 5 on the highest. "Most colleges award credit for AP scores of 3 or ...

High school students may be offered the opportunity to take Advanced Placement classes, considered equivalent to a college-level course. These classes tend to be more challenging and offer a number of ...

Only about half of the nation’s rural school districts have students enrolled in college-level Advanced Placement courses, and those students have lower AP success rates than their non-rural peers, ...

Taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to nudge more students into Advanced Placement classes — but a close look at test scores suggests much of the investment has been ...

An early look at figures from the 2016 Advanced Placement tests shows continued growth in test-taking in subjects such as physics and computer science, and a trend of increasing scores in a number of ...

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The College Board has announced it will begin offering an Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course at 60 unnamed high schools across the U.S. this fall, CBS News has learned. The AP ...

Some years ago, I was invited to speak at a national convention of high-school teachers of Advanced Placement (AP) psychology courses. AP courses, as you probably know, are high-school courses ...

Georgetown University has one of the best political science programs in the country. The university is also one of the most competitive, with an admission rate of 15 percent. In the past 13 years, our ...