Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 81,000 New Jersey high school students took AP exams last year, recognizing their importance in the college application ...

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 ...

Encouraging students to pursue higher-level science, technology, engineering, and math courses requires deliberate planning, especially for those students historically underrepresented in those fields ...

Advanced Placement courses give students a chance to strengthen their transcripts by demonstrating academic rigor, and earn college credits. But these courses aren’t offered at every high school.

The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for the college bound, the AP tests a chance for the best and ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that tests are mandated in most Advanced Placement courses. When students set to take Precalculus Honors return to school this fall in the ...

Many people often think that by taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes that they might get ahead in college, get credit, or may look better to colleges. Often times, that is not the case. AP courses ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. Despite these drawbacks, AP ...

Darren Williams, a teacher at McLain High School of Science and Technology in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pointed a wooden ruler at one of four questions in red on the dry-erase board in his classroom. “Question ...