Newsweek

School Offering AP Courses for Only Black, Latinx Students Sparks Backlash

An Advanced Placement Calculus course definition at an Illinois High School is eliciting accusations of segregation. The discussion of race in the classroom has divided many across the nation, with ...
Los Angeles Times

AP vs. college classes– Are they worth it?

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 ...
WUNC

More North Carolina students are taking — and passing — AP exams

More North Carolina high schoolers are taking college-level classes and passing exams to earn college credit than ever before. Many high schools offer Advanced Placement (AP) classes designed to teach ...
Education Week

These AP Classes Were Designed to Attract Students of Color. Did They?

The College Board over the last few years has bet on two new courses to boost participation of underrepresented students in the Advanced Placement program: AP African American Studies and AP ...
Education Week

How Many AP Classes Are Enough? What Researchers (and College Hopefuls) Say

Is there an optimal number of Advanced Placement courses students should take to succeed in college? The College Board, which offers AP courses through which students can get college credit while in ...
Forbes

Advanced Placement Classes May Have Been A Fine Idea, But A New Book Explains How They Have Lost Their Way

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 ...
WBUR

For Some Rural Students, Taking More AP Courses Means More Online Learning

Skyleigh D’Ambrosia, 17, loves learning about science. She’s taken pretty much every science class available at her high school in the western Massachusetts town of Athol. "I want to be a doctor when ...
CNN

AP Psychology can be taught in Florida in its ‘entirety,’ state official says, amid fight over gender and sexual orientation teachings

The head of Florida’s education department on Friday told school officials that Advanced Placement Psychology courses may be taught in their “entirety” after dizzying concerns over new state laws ...
The Courier-Journal

JCPS to bolster AP, dual-credit class options; deadline approaching for student sign ups

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky's largest district will soon offer a slate of virtual dual-credit and advanced placement courses to all high school students — a "gamechanger" designed to boost access to ...
The Hechinger Report

STUDENT VOICE: There’s something missing from my Advanced Placement classes, and that needs to change

The new, narrowed AP World History curriculum no longer examines the first civilizations, beginnings of religions, classical empires or any large period of pre-colonial Africa, America (North or South ...
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The 10 hardest AP classes to pass in high school, according to data—and no, #1 is not calculus

Every May, millions of high school students charge up their graphing calculators, crank out practice essays, and brush up on topics like participatory democracy and kinematics in preparation for ...