The College Board recently recalibrated Advanced Placement (AP) scores for nine subjects, aiming to boost passing rates to 60-80%, aligning them with other AP tests. This "validation" process has led ...

A few years ago, education experts noticed that scores were climbing upwards on a number of Advanced Placement tests. The ...

When considering how to offer advanced coursework to high school students that could earn them college credit, schools often turn to the College Board’s Advanced Placement program. However, the ...

The College Board has "recalibrated" nine AP subjects over three years, leading to a significant increase in students scoring 3 or better, exemplified by dramatically improved US Government scores.

A glance at the summer issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Black students and the Advanced Placement program College-bound black students should be encouraged to participate in the ...

DePauw awards credit for a number of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs, including College Board AP, International Baccalaureate (IB), dual enrollment, advanced college, and A Levels.

Amid American K-12 education’s chronic mediocrity, countless failed reform efforts, and policy divides that rival health care and immigration, the Advanced Placement program is a rare and happy ...

The percentage of public high schools offering Advanced Placement (AP) courses is declining, with lower percentages offering AP in 2012 than in 2008. The overall declines in AP programs after 2008 ...

In August, the College Board announced a new website designed to complement Advanced Placement courses. “AP Classroom” offers standardized year-long curricular sequences, divided into nine units.