Taking grueling Advanced Placement exams is never a walk in the park. But when a convergence of disasters hits, even the most well-prepared student can be reduced to tears. Proctors as well. That is ...

When John F. Kennedy High School graduate Francisco Ortiz reflects on his junior year, he remembers a difficult transition. He had moved from the industrial metropolis of Monterrey, Mexico, to San ...

Native speakers are packing college-level Spanish and Chinese language classes and acing their AP tests at rates far higher than their English-speaking peers. In Maryland, Virginia and D.C., public ...

The College Board, which administers the Advanced Placement program, and Khan Academy, an online nonprofit offering resources and videos, are teaming up to create a supply of free test-preparation and ...

Lemon Grove Middle School took a gamble last year when it set out to turn a perceived weakness among its students into a strength. The school – which has a large number of low-income, native ...

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New York City foreign language teachers are furious that their star students might miss the all-important Advanced Placement World Language exams because of an “unfair” policy requiring the test to be ...

Increasing numbers of students from low-income Latino and black families are taking advanced courses and passing AP exams in Lynwood Unified School District, south of downtown Los Angeles. To make ...

High school students in Advanced Placement classes study hard for long and challenging AP exams given the first two weeks in May. Before the students get their grades, however, thousands of teachers ...