Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The College Board launched the Advanced Placement Capstone Diploma Program in 2014, giving high school students the chance to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Old Rochester Regional High School AP Seminar students recently shared their Team Multimedia Presentations, successfully completing AP Task 1. Students worked in teams to identify a problem and ...

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 ...

High school students immersed in Advanced Placement (AP) courses often wonder if the academic rigor of these courses will serve them well. The answer is a resounding yes. These are college-level ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...