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Trevor Packer, the head of the College Board’s Advanced Placement program, has a lot on his plate. There’s diversifying who takes AP classes that offer high school students a chance at money-saving ...

Some Advanced Placement teachers might have noticed that a higher percentage of their students received passing scores on the program’s year-end exams in the last few years. This year, 72 percent of ...

My joy and relief of finally being able to pay for my long-awaited lunch before my next stretch of afternoon classes was extinguished with embarrassment. The cashier’s words made my face grow hot, and ...

The College Board recently recalibrated Advanced Placement (AP) scores for nine subjects, aiming to boost passing rates to 60-80%, aligning them with other AP tests. This "validation" process has led ...

The College Board has "recalibrated" nine AP subjects over three years, leading to a significant increase in students scoring 3 or better, exemplified by dramatically improved US Government scores.

A Q&A with Annie Abrams, author of a new book challenging the power of the College Board and its AP exams. Annie Abrams’s recently released book, Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students, ...

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 ...

OSWEGO, IL — Oswego High School and Oswego East High School were recognized for their Advanced Placement programs, Oswego Community Unit School District 308 announced. The College Board placed both ...

A glance at the summer issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: Black students and the Advanced Placement program College-bound black students should be encouraged to participate in the ...