Advanced Placement classes can set applicants apart in a competitive college admissions environment, demonstrating the ability to perform well on more challenging coursework. Experts say performing ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

At first glance, AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition seem closely related. After all, both are designed to mirror college-level English courses and contain ...

Advanced placement courses aren’t just for students bound for the Ivy League. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has been pushing that message for years, recruiting ninth graders who do well on the PSAT ...

Akron Public Schools is looking to add new advanced courses at three schools to increase academic rigor and access to higher-level courses for more students. Buchtel Community Learning Center's high ...

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 ...

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 ...