With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

First, Advanced Placement has long had courses focused on topics like European history and French language and culture, but no class that focuses primarily on the Black experience. This fact is ...

NEW YORK-- The College Board on Wednesday released its official new Advanced Placement African American studies curriculum. The AP course was being offered as a pilot program at 60 schools across the ...

The number of high school students taking Advanced Placement exams increased 95% over the past decade, but many still do not ...

The struggle teachers have found themselves in over the course of the pandemic is well-documented as they have been the center of a COVID-19 tug-of-war over regulations in schools, but it is a new ...

The new, narrowed AP World History curriculum no longer examines the first civilizations, beginnings of religions, classical empires or any large period of pre-colonial Africa, America (North or South ...

Honors classes, once the pinnacle of pre-collegiate study, are gradually being eliminated at some of the region's top high schools, on the theory that the burgeoning Advanced Placement and ...

The Advanced Placement (AP) Biology curriculum is shifting from memorization to more inquiry-based learning in order to better prepare students for modern science, which the University biology ...

AP African American Studies arrived last year at 60 schools across the country, and this fall, it will be tested in roughly 800 high schools – twice what was originally planned – thanks to a surge in ...

A new Advanced Placement African American studies course, piloted across 60 schools during the current school year, has been celebrated by scholars of race and ethnicity and criticized by conservative ...

Each November, students and schools face a deadline for registering for exams for the College Board’s Advanced Placement fall-semester and yearlong courses. These exams are taken in May and depending ...