High school students set Haywood record for AP courses

Haywood County high schools had a record number of students taking Advanced Placement courses and exams last school year. Not ...
Edutopia

Benefits of Using Skills-Based Instruction in Advanced Placement Courses

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

What to Do if Your School Doesn’t Offer AP Courses

Advanced Placement courses give students a chance to strengthen their transcripts by demonstrating academic rigor, and earn ...
Yahoo

Do Advanced Placement students think their classes are worth it? Here’s what they say

Students like that taking AP courses saves them money and lets them earn college credit in high school. Hamasa Mashal is a junior at Turlock High School. This year, she is taking five AP classes: ...
The Daily Northwestern

‘We’re the first one to do this’: ETHS pilots national AP Networking course

Evanston Township High School room A336 did not have computers at the beginning of the year due to a scheduling conflict, ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

As Atlanta expands AP classes, more students earn college credit

Krista Sanders’ Advanced Placement Calculus students at Atlanta’s Mays High School have their eyes set on a big graph displayed at the front of the classroom. Sanders has drawn a line on the graph ...
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 ...