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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

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 are no longer just nice to have on your high school transcript they are a must have for competitive college applications.

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.

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.

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

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… ...

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 ...