Dual enrollment has been growing in popularity, with over 2.5 million high schoolers taking at least one dual-credit course ...

If last year’s numbers are any indication, some 3 million students will be taking 5 million Advanced Placement exams this spring. These three-hour exams, offered in May each year, mark the culmination ...

Reflections on how raising expectations and expanding access to advanced coursework can empower all students to excel.

Advanced Placement courses have long been the standard for high achievement in high school. The classes are modeled on college courses and are meant to represent the difficulty and breadth of material ...

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 ...

High school students who want to take Advanced Placement Biology, AP Environmental Science, or AP Physics 2 can just log on at home and watch instructors at Rice University in Houston deliver the ...

Latino participation in AP classes is disproportionately low. Feb. 20, 2013— -- Advanced Placement classes in high schools across the country are becoming more diverse, and students are scoring ...

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 ...