High school students in Advanced Placement classes study hard for long and challenging AP exams given the first two weeks in May. Before the students get their grades, however, thousands of teachers ...

Millions of high school students take Advanced Placement examinations each year. I have been grading the free-response questions on the AP Psychology exam for more than a decade. Over the years, I ...

Erich Martel suspected something was wrong because nobody was telling him anything. But it was not until Aug. 17, less than two weeks before school started, that he learned he would not be teaching ...

I was saddened to hear of Daniel Doyle’s embittering stint as an AP World History exam reader at Colorado State University (The Chronicle, Letters, August 7). I assume that it was his first and last ...

Tom Stanley-Becker wrote a good critique of institutional education in general. The pace of learning is determined by forces outside the classroom. Unfortunately, most of us must attend such ...

Just before former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins read his funny and moving poetry this week in front of 1,300 rapt Advanced Placement English teachers, he asked, “Why do so many of you do this for ...

Encouraging students to take accelerated math classes in 8th grade, based on prior strong performance, increases their chances of scoring a 3 or higher on Advanced Placement math exams in high school, ...

As data have (rightly) suggested, students who pursue AP courses generally do better in their first year in college than those who do not. It can range from familiarity with the purpose of blue books ...

A surge in Advanced Placement test scores after a change in how the College Board evaluates the exams has sparked accusations of grade inflation. The College Board revealed this month that it started ...

It's that time of year again -- flowers are in full bloom, the days are getting warmer and students across the United States recently took their Advanced Placement exams. But finding a balance in an ...