NEW YORK (AP) — The catalyst was a source’s cryptic hint: Ask about Ray Kelly’s rakers and mosque crawlers. Their curiosity piqued, two Associated Press investigative reporters began digging. As a ...

There are no shortcuts on the road to earning the required number of credits to graduate college. But there are head starts. By earning a sufficiently high score on an Advanced Placement exam, ...

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 ...

Annie Abrams is a high school English teacher with a doctorate in American literary history from New York University. She has received well-deserved praise for her new book, “Shortchanged: How ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that tests are mandated in most Advanced Placement courses. When students set to take Precalculus Honors return to school this fall in the ...

The Associated Press and the Trump administration renewed their argument Monday over a president’s ability to limit media access to ...

This week and next is a national rite of passage for stressed-out overachievers everywhere. Nearly 3 million high school students at 22,000 high schools will be sitting down to take their Advanced ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. Serious college students studying on laptop sitting in a row ...

One night in May 1986, Trevor Packer’s mother received a phone call from his high school principal. The boy had failed to sign up for the college-level Advanced Placement European history exam the ...

As an academic discipline, psychology is quite vast. At the same time, people of all education levels are drawn to the field, given psychology’s relevance for everyday living. Against the backdrop of ...