If students aren’t adequately prepared for college-level math courses in high school, it can make completing a college degree more difficult, with some students needing to spend time and money on ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

Encouraging students to take accelerated math classes in 8th grade, based on prior strong performance, increases their chances of scoring a 3 or higher on Advanced Placement math exams in high school, ...

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Alumni of Palo Alto public schools shared their perspective on the change, which will allow students to take post-calculus ...

Is today the Golden Age of the AP? A program that began in 1951 as a selective niche test taken by fewer than 1,000 students has grown into a baseline of the higher education process. According to the ...

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 ...

Rural high schools, small high schools and high schools that serve historically marginalized students don't provide the same access to advanced math classes as other schools, new research shows. As a ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...