Yahoo

Do Advanced Placement students think their classes are worth it? Here’s what they say

Students like that taking AP courses saves them money and lets them earn college credit in high school. Hamasa Mashal is a junior at Turlock High School. This year, she is taking five AP classes: ...
Education Week

On Dropping AP Courses

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 ...

Use AP Credits to Graduate From College in 3 Years

AP exams are scored on a scale of 1 on the lowest end to 5 on the highest. "Most colleges award credit for AP scores of 3 or ...
Education Week

These AP Classes Were Designed to Attract Students of Color. Did They?

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 ...
Yahoo

College Board Creates New AP Courses: Here’s What To Know

The College Board is adding two new AP courses to its 70-year-old program. The goal is to respond to a changing industry, job market demand, as well as ways to best prepare students whether or not ...
Forbes

Advanced Placement Classes May Have Been A Fine Idea, But A New Book Explains How They Have Lost Their Way

The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for the college bound, the AP tests a chance for the best and ...
WPTV-TV

Students, parents react to possibility of AP courses changing

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — People in Palm Beach County are debating the impact that Gov. Ron DeSantis' suggestion to part ways with the company that writes the curriculum for Advanced Placement courses ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Rush to Take More AP Courses Hurts Students, High Schools, and Colleges

An entering student at Pomona College last fall submitted the results of 14 Advanced Placement tests, all but one with the top score of 5. In all, 20 members of the entering class each reported the ...
MyCentralJersey

College Connection: Are AP courses really necessary?

Advanced Placement (AP) courses are college-level courses offered to high school students. There are 38 AP courses in the Arts, English, History & Social Science, Math & Computer Science, Science, and ...
turnto10

Benefits of taking AP courses in high school with College Board

Studio10’s Krystin Rae is speaking with Terry Redican, the AP Vice President about the value of taking Advanced Placement Courses. According to the College Board, more than 2.8 million students take ...
Fordham University

AP/IB and College Transfer Credits

FCRH only awards transfer credits for IB scores of 5 or higher. Only higher level (HL) exams are accepted, not subsidiary level (SL) exams. Scores of 5, regardless of exam, earn non-major elective ...
MyCentralJersey

Are Advanced Placement courses really necessary? | College Connection

Some 2.7 million students just finished taking 4.8 million Advanced Placement exams, according to The Washington Post. These three-hour exams, offered in May of each year, mark the culmination of ...