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 ...

The number of students taking Advanced Placement exams has grown tremendously—participation increased in 66 of the last 70 ...

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

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, ...

As a proud Chattanooga native and alumnus of three Hamilton County public schools, I strongly support increasing student success in college-level courses. Among the most prestigious college-level ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ray Ravaglia covers education, focusing on technology and innovation. For schools in countries with national curriculum boards, ...

Even though school is out for summer, Advanced Placement students are finally getting their exam scores. See how Iowa compares.

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, mired in the thick of the Cold War, a small group of educators — all White men at elite institutions — came up with an idea. What if promising high school students could take advanced ...