This past week, several reports were distributed, describing how the College Board had begun a process of recalibrating (which they call validating) Advanced Placement (AP) scores. What does this mean ...

Only about half of the nation’s rural school districts have students enrolled in college-level Advanced Placement courses, and those students have lower AP success rates than their non-rural peers, ...

For many popular exams, recent score reports reflect not a surge in student mastery, but a quiet lowering of the bar.

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A student writes notes in an Advanced Placement Physics class in 2014 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington. (Charles Dharapak/AP) Perspective by Jay Mathews Chester E. “Checker” Finn ...

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Taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to nudge more students into Advanced Placement classes — but a close look at test scores suggests much of the investment has been ...

The College Board has announced it will begin offering an Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course at 60 unnamed high schools across the U.S. this fall, CBS News has learned. The AP ...

New York State and Long Island are home to hefty numbers of students who succeed in college-level coursework while still in high school, national and regional surveys show. The latest state rankings ...