Grade inflation has made Advanced Placement exams indispensable. The change isn’t only that more teenagers take AP exams. It’s that ambitious students keep taking more of them. In 2004, for instance, ...

Some Advanced Placement teachers might have noticed that a higher percentage of their students received passing scores on the program’s year-end exams in the last few years. This year, 72 percent of ...

My joy and relief of finally being able to pay for my long-awaited lunch before my next stretch of afternoon classes was extinguished with embarrassment. The cashier’s words made my face grow hot, and ...

The significance and rigor of AP exams are once again in the spotlight with the release of the latest test scores. Discussions about the new scoring methodology and the streamlining of content ...

For high school students across the United States, Advanced Placement courses offer a curriculum that not only exposes them to university-level work but can give them credits for college should they ...

Recent changes in Advanced Placement (AP) exam scores, dubbed "The Great Recalibration," have sparked debate. College Board's AP Director, Trevor Packer, indicated in 2021 that previous scoring ...

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 ...

In 2021, just 17% of of high school students taking the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition test earned top marks on the exam. Four years later, that number ballooned to more than 43 ...

Namwali Serpell, an author and English professor at Harvard University, was confounded: A slew of fresh online reviews described her book — which was well-received when it was published more than four ...