Advanced Placement testing ended May 22. Students, including myself, have invested hundreds of hours preparing for these examinations, arduously practicing and studying over the course of a year. We ...

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 ...

The College Board’s Advanced Placement program, which offers students a chance at earning college credit while still in high school, continues to grow in participation—and performance—across the ...

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, ...

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The vast majority of Advanced Placement exams this May will be digital. The exams in English, history, social sciences and other subjects will move to the digital testing application, Bluebook, the ...

Spread the love“`html The choice between Advanced Placement (AP) courses and the International Baccalaureate (IB) program is a significant decision for high school students and their families. Both ...

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In a previous article, I described a massive change in the distribution of AP scores. There were some hints that this was coming. There was a 2021 conference on the English Literature and Language AP ...

In the past few months, a lot of attention has been paid to the spike in some Advanced Placement exam results. Ed Week’s Ileana Najarro reported in August that these increased passing rates have “led ...

Encouraging students to pursue higher-level science, technology, engineering, and math courses requires deliberate planning, especially for those students historically underrepresented in those fields ...