What to Do if Your School Doesn’t Offer AP Courses

Advanced Placement courses give students a chance to strengthen their transcripts by demonstrating academic rigor, and earn ...
Los Angeles Times

AP vs. college classes– Are they worth it?

Many people often think that by taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes that they might get ahead in college, get credit, or may look better to colleges. Often times, that is not the case. AP courses ...
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The 10 hardest AP classes to pass in high school, according to data—and no, #1 is not calculus

Every May, millions of high school students charge up their graphing calculators, crank out practice essays, and brush up on topics like participatory democracy and kinematics in preparation for ...
Edutopia

Benefits of Using Skills-Based Instruction in Advanced Placement Courses

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

The College Board Adds Two New AP Courses. Here’s What Makes Them Different

For decades, the College Board partnered with college and universities to design courses for its sprawling Advanced Placement program, which is offered at about 16,000 high schools, making it the most ...
Yale Environment 360

Yalies in the Mississippi Delta: Bringing AP STEM classes to rural schools

It’s mid-afternoon on a hot summer day in Mississippi, and Matt Dolan ’82 has assembled a small army of promising high school students at Mississippi State University in Starkville for some academic ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

As Atlanta expands AP classes, more students earn college credit

Krista Sanders’ Advanced Placement Calculus students at Atlanta’s Mays High School have their eyes set on a big graph displayed at the front of the classroom. Sanders has drawn a line on the graph ...