Millions of high school students take Advanced Placement examinations each year. I have been grading the free-response questions on the AP Psychology exam for more than a decade. Over the years, I ...

POWAY —— Grading in advanced placement courses at Westview HighSchool will change, putting more emphasis on classroom work andless on the final exam, school officials said. A districtwide grading ...

I was saddened to hear of Daniel Doyle’s embittering stint as an AP World History exam reader at Colorado State University (The Chronicle, Letters, August 7). I assume that it was his first and last ...

The College Board announced the results of its audit of Advanced Placement courses Monday, saying that most AP courses meet college-level standards, and that the review process had helped thousands of ...

Just before former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins read his funny and moving poetry this week in front of 1,300 rapt Advanced Placement English teachers, he asked, “Why do so many of you do this for ...

GRAND BLANC, Michigan — Students who take advanced placement classes will soon receive greater reward for their efforts. As an incentive to get more students to take the classes, Grand Blanc High ...

Erich Martel suspected something was wrong because nobody was telling him anything. But it was not until Aug. 17, less than two weeks before school started, that he learned he would not be teaching ...

Tom Stanley-Becker wrote a good critique of institutional education in general. The pace of learning is determined by forces outside the classroom. Unfortunately, most of us must attend such ...

Many teachers are spending their summer far, far away from tests and grading papers, but that's not the case for a select few who applied to grade boxes upon boxes of Advanced Placement exams at ...