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 ...
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 ...
A quiet revolution is picking up steam in the nation’s private secondary schools, with broad implications for college admissions and for teaching and learning on both sides of the transition from high ...
An entering student at Pomona College last fall submitted the results of 14 Advanced Placement tests, all but one with the top score of 5. In all, 20 members of the entering class each reported the ...
Reporter Liz Bowie‘s lengthy analysis of Advanced Placement courses in Baltimore County Public Schools generated a lot of discussion at Eastern Technical High School, a National Blue Ribbon School ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the college admission process and how it affects families. According to a recent NPR report, nearly 3 million high school ...
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 ...
Participation in rigorous Advanced Placement high school courses has more than doubled in Anne Arundel County public schools over the past three years. The AP participation has increased so much, and ...
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 ...