Forbes

Advanced Placement Classes May Have Been A Fine Idea, But A New Book Explains How They Have Lost Their Way

The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for the college bound, the AP tests a chance for the best and ...

LAUSD students taking AP classes are excelling in record numbers, school district says

LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the College Board CEO and other school district leadership came together Tuesday to ...
Forbes

So Your High School Doesn’t Offer APs—Are AP Exams Still Important For College Admissions?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. Despite these drawbacks, AP ...
Education Week

AP’s Newest Computer Science Course Has Attracted More Diverse Students

Encouraging students to pursue higher-level science, technology, engineering, and math courses requires deliberate planning, especially for those students historically underrepresented in those fields ...

LAUSD shows big improvement in Advanced Placement class enrollment, passing scores

LAUSD students have made "unprecedented" gains in Advanced Placement participation and passing scores, Supt. Alberto Carvalho ...
Orlando Sentinel

AP psychology course can’t be offered over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons, College Board says

Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the ...
The Oakland Press

More students taking Advanced Placement exams since 2018

More public high school students are taking Advanced Placement courses and exams than at any time since 2018. The number of Michigan students taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes in 2023 increased ...

LAUSD reports surge in AP enrollment and qualifying exam scores

Students earned more than 41,000 qualifying scores in 2025, representing more over 124,000 college credits, officials said.
Los Angeles Times

AP vs. college classes– Are they worth it?

Many people often think that by taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes that they might get ahead in college, get credit, or may look better to colleges. Often times, that is not the case. AP courses ...
Chattanoogan.com

The State Of Advanced Placement Courses In Hamilton County

As a proud Chattanooga native and alumnus of three Hamilton County public schools, I strongly support increasing student success in college-level courses. Among the most prestigious college-level ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

With school underway, Gwinnett remains at impasse over AP course

Several Gwinnett County elected leaders continued to push for the inclusion of Advanced Placement African American Studies in the days before the start of a new academic year, but classes began Monday ...
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 ...