Shortchanged by Annie Abrams. John Hopkins University Press. The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for ...

Advanced Placement classes have expanded in Orange County schools and across Florida. More students are succeeding on the tough AP exams — but plenty of parents and educators worry about those ...

Luis Romero has taken so many Advanced Placement courses, he can barely remember them all. AP Computer Science, Human Geography, U.S. Government, World History — the list goes on.

WASHINGTON — Columbus McKinney is taking his fifth Advanced Placement course at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, undeterred even though he didn’t score high enough to get college ...

Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not anymore. In the next two weeks, 2 million students ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Columbus McKinney is taking his fifth Advanced Placement course at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, undeterred even though he didn’t score high enough to get college ...

Advanced Placement classes, available in 34 subjects from art history to calculus, are supposed to be taught at a college level. The exams are graded on a scale of 1 to 5.

The yearly exams each May test students' mastery of first-year college course subjects. Here's when the results are released, ...

Advanced Placement (AP) classes offer high school students an invaluable opportunity to challenge themselves academically while reaping benefits that extend well into their college careers.

WASHINGTON – Columbus McKinney is taking his fifth Advancement Placement course at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, undeterred even though he didn’t score high enough to get co… ...

If you ask Colby Simpson, one of 35 seniors at Paonia High School, how many Advanced Placement classes he’s taken, he has to shuffle through a long mental list.

Last year, nearly a third of the students at G.W. Carver High School in New Orleans took an Advanced Placement class. View full sizeEliot Kamenitz, The Times-Picayune archiveA limousine brought ...