The Advanced Placement program is fifty years old. As we reported last week, it was created to let high school students do college-level work. They can earn college credits if they do well on an exam.

Doing well in advanced classes, like Advanced Placement® (AP) and honors classes, signals that you know how to take on academic challenges, giving you a leg up against your peers who took less ...

For decades, Advanced Placement classes have been the gold standard in America’s high schools, rigorous courses that give students a chance to earn college credit and lend prestige to the ...

Advanced Placement exams, which started in the 1950s, offer a way for students to earn college credit while still in high school and are offered in 34 different subjects. The classes are designed ...

The College Board offers four Advanced Placement classes in math: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics and – the newest – AP Precalculus. Successful completion of an AP math class is ...

Advanced Placement courses have become an integral component of the college admissions process for high school students. Naturally, students must achieve high grades and test scores in AP classes ...

MAHOMET – Robert Pennington took three advanced placement classes at Mahomet-Seymour High School, and he took four exams to earn college credit. Pennington's a young man in an academic hurry.

Advanced Placement classes, available in 34 subjects from art history to calculus, are supposed to be taught at a college level. The exams are graded on a scale of 1 to 5.

While LaGuardia High School students crammed last week for Advanced Placement exams, school administrators faced a high-stakes test of their own: selling wary parents on a plan to cut down on AP ...