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: ...

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

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
LancasterOnline

AP environmental science and teacher education courses among new classes planned at Solanco

The board heard a presentation on new classes that will be offered starting with the 2026-27 school year. Background: Earlier ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Oakland Press

More students taking Advanced Placement exams since 2018

More public high school students are taking Advanced Placement courses and exams than at any time since 2018. The number of Michigan students taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes in 2023 increased ...