Education Week

College Board’s CEO on How AP Courses Are Changing for the AI Era

The College Board is making a key addition to its 70-year-old Advanced Placement program: creating courses with significant input from the business community—not just higher education—and with career ...
Education Week

College Board Leader Discusses Controversy Over AP Courses

The College Board has been in the headlines repeatedly over the last year. The nonprofit’s Advanced Placement courses—which look good on college applications and offer students a chance to score ...
AOL

Three local high schools recognized for student performance in AP classes

HOLLAND — Three local high schools have been recognized for their students’ performance in Advanced Placement classes. The College Board recently announced its 2023 Advanced Placement Program School ...
Modesto Bee

Do Advanced Placement students think their classes are worth it? Here’s what they say

Hamasa Mashal is a junior at Turlock High School. This year, she is taking five AP classes: precalculus, U.S. history, chemistry, statistics and English language. For her and many other students, ...
Newsweek

School Offering AP Courses for Only Black, Latinx Students Sparks Backlash

An Advanced Placement Calculus course definition at an Illinois High School is eliciting accusations of segregation. The discussion of race in the classroom has divided many across the nation, with ...
Daily Journal

Franklin students learn ‘invaluable’ skills through AP classes

As the school year nears its end, a group of Franklin Community High School students finally completed the task they had worked on for months. Students presented their Advanced Placement research and ...
EdSource

Let’s shatter stereotypes about what an AP class — and students — look like

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. If you were to show up at Natomas High School in the middle of the school day, you ...
CNN

Opinion: This is the AP course that America’s kids really need

Editor’s Note: Elena Sheppard is a culture writer who focuses on books, fashion, theater and history. Her first book, “The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora,” is forthcoming from St.
Chicago Parent

These Are The Hardest AP Classes To Pass

Discover the 10 toughest AP exams by pass rate, revealing challenges and surprises for high school students striving for college credit. Every May, millions of high school students charge up their ...
The Washington Post

Honors Courses Give Way To AP Rigor

Honors classes, once the pinnacle of pre-collegiate study, are gradually being eliminated at some of the region's top high schools, on the theory that the burgeoning Advanced Placement and ...
Channel 3000

Record number of MMSD students are taking AP classes

MADISON, Wis. — The Madison Metropolitan School District's four comprehensive high schools have seen an increase in the number of students enrolling in Advanced Placement courses. This May, the ...