Forbes

Advanced Placement Classes May Have Been A Fine Idea, But A New Book Explains How They Have Lost Their Way

The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for the college bound, the AP tests a chance for the best and ...
Inside Higher Ed

A Brutal Critique of AP Courses

In the beginning of Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheat Students, Annie Abrams recounts her experience teaching AP courses in a public high school in New York City. It was 2016. She had just ...
Education Week

These AP Classes Were Designed to Attract Students of Color. Did They?

The College Board over the last few years has bet on two new courses to boost participation of underrepresented students in the Advanced Placement program: AP African American Studies and AP ...
Today

High schools could lose AP classes if they ban ‘required topics’ from being taught

The College Board says schools that fail to teach topics outlined by the Advanced Placement program could lose AP designation for those classes. As a host of state legislatures and school districts ...

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 ...