The College Board launched the Advanced Placement Capstone Diploma Program in 2014, giving high school students the chance to develop research and argumentative skills needed to succeed in college and ...

At Archbishop Stepinac High School, three students have earned the AP Capstone DiplomaTM, and eight students have earned the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...