The Advanced Placement program has long provided a stepping stone to college-level work for high school students. But as a growing number of states enact bans or restrictions on teaching about ...

More than 81,000 New Jersey high school students took AP exams last year, recognizing their importance in the college application process. According to statistics from College Board, AP courses are ...

Advanced Placement (AP) courses are college-level courses offered to high school students. There are 38 AP courses in the Arts, English, History & Social Science, Math & Computer Science, Science, and ...

Florida's Department of Education is introducing a new U.S. history course as an alternative to the Advanced Placement ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is limiting the influence of a new national Advanced Placement U.S. History course and exam amid conservative complaints that they’re rife with anti-American bias. The State ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The official curriculum for a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies downplays some components that drew criticism from conservatives including Florida Gov.

The state Senate suggested Wednesday that Georgia should all but ban Advanced Placement U.S. history courses statewide, saying education officials needed to protect students from a “radically ...

Hinsdale South and Central High Schools’ social studies department revealed plans for a realigned curriculum across both school campuses during Thursday’s board of education meeting. According to ...

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 ...

Florida's education chief announced a state-developed alternative to AP U.S. history for college credit, part of a fight ...