The College Board recently recalibrated Advanced Placement (AP) scores for nine subjects, aiming to boost passing rates to 60-80%, aligning them with other AP tests. This "validation" process has led ...

When considering how to offer advanced coursework to high school students that could earn them college credit, schools often turn to the College Board’s Advanced Placement program. However, the ...

The College Board has "recalibrated" nine AP subjects over three years, leading to a significant increase in students scoring 3 or better, exemplified by dramatically improved US Government scores.

A glance at the summer issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Black students and the Advanced Placement program College-bound black students should be encouraged to participate in the ...

Amid American K-12 education’s chronic mediocrity, countless failed reform efforts, and policy divides that rival health care and immigration, the Advanced Placement program is a rare and happy ...

DePauw awards credit for a number of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs, including College Board AP, International Baccalaureate (IB), dual enrollment, advanced college, and A Levels.

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 ...

The percentage of public high schools offering Advanced Placement (AP) courses is declining, with lower percentages offering AP in 2012 than in 2008. The overall declines in AP programs after 2008 ...

New York’s specialized high schools give disproportionately few seats to Black and Hispanic students, continuing a pattern that has drawn criticism. By Matthew Haag The university has been in talks to ...

In August, the College Board announced a new website designed to complement Advanced Placement courses. “AP Classroom” offers standardized year-long curricular sequences, divided into nine units.