The College Board offers three Advanced Placement classes in math: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics. Successful completion of an AP math class is invaluable to many college-bound ...

As standardized testing advances from all directions, teachers and administrators face a momentous choice: Are we mainly concerned with educating our students, or with ranking them? Recent news ...

In a society in which grades are revered, Diamond Bar High students are spending many sleepless nights in hopes of scoring 5’s on their AP exams. According to a 2014 report by College Board, almost ...

Annie Abrams is a high school English teacher with a doctorate in American literary history from New York University. She has received well-deserved praise for her new book, “Shortchanged: How ...

If last year’s numbers are any indication, some 3 million students will be taking 5 million Advanced Placement exams this spring. These three-hour exams, offered in May each year, mark the culmination ...

If you’re one of the many high school students who’s not sure which advanced placement (AP) classes to take, we hope our list of the 6 easiest AP classes to take will give you some direction. Let’s ...

Taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to nudge more students into Advanced Placement classes — but a close look at test scores suggests much of the investment has been ...

Bob Baker talks to his Advanced Placement physics students on the first day of class at El Camino High School on Thursday, August 16, 2012. Randy Pench rpench@sacbee.com High school students are ...

At the end of sophomore year, I hesitated before registering for 11th-grade classes. Most of my choices had been obvious, and English should have been too — I had already received approval to take ...