This past week, several reports were distributed, describing how the College Board had begun a process of recalibrating (which they call validating) Advanced Placement (AP) scores. What does this mean ...

For many popular exams, recent score reports reflect not a surge in student mastery, but a quiet lowering of the bar.

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Only about half of the nation’s rural school districts have students enrolled in college-level Advanced Placement courses, and those students have lower AP success rates than their non-rural peers, ...

In the 1950s, mired in the thick of the Cold War, a small group of educators — all White men at elite institutions — came up with an idea. What if promising high school students could take advanced ...

Many students today enter William & Mary with substantial advanced placement credit. AP credit for MATH 111 (Calculus I) is awarded when a student achieves a score of 4 or 5 on the AB test, or a score ...