Students nationwide spend long summer hours completing preparatory assignments for their Advanced Placement courses. At Jericho High School, AP classes are very popular, leaving a large number of ...

Taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to nudge more students into Advanced Placement classes — but a close look at test scores suggests much of the investment has ...

AP courses provide opportunities for independent research, which can satisfy the curiosity of students who report being under-challenged in regular classes.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The official curriculum for a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies that was released on Wednesday downplays some components that drew criticism from ...

High school students often take college-level classes to save time and money in college, but there is one catch: You have to pass the exams in order to get the credit.