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Trevor Packer, the head of the College Board’s Advanced Placement program, has a lot on his plate. There’s diversifying who takes AP classes that offer high school students a chance at money-saving ...

My joy and relief of finally being able to pay for my long-awaited lunch before my next stretch of afternoon classes was extinguished with embarrassment. The cashier’s words made my face grow hot, and ...

Some Advanced Placement teachers might have noticed that a higher percentage of their students received passing scores on the program’s year-end exams in the last few years. This year, 72 percent of ...

The College Board released a revised curriculum of its Advanced Placement African American Studies course Wednesday, ahead of an expected Fall 2024 launch. The board, a non-profit that oversees AP ...

Change in AP scores in US Government and Politics. Used with permission from Jon Boeckenstedt. https://www.highereddatastories.com/ Over the last three years, nine AP ...

In a previous article, I described a massive change in the distribution of AP scores. There were some hints that this was coming. There was a 2021 conference on the English Literature and Language AP ...

A Q&A with Annie Abrams, author of a new book challenging the power of the College Board and its AP exams. Annie Abrams’s recently released book, Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students, ...

The Advanced Placement program has served as an educational opportunity for advanced education for the last seven decades. As Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan document in their book about the past, ...

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 ...