Mindlessly checking Life-360, a mobile app used for location tracking, I’ve realized that it has been exactly six days since I’ve left my home. During those six days, many — may be too many — changes ...

Alexa Macias studied for months for her Advanced Placement calculus exam — and was devastated to see her hard work negated last week when she ran into a technological glitch that prevented her from ...

Northwestern has changed how Advanced Placement test scores will be counted as credit for the incoming class of 2024. This year, for the first time, high school students took their AP tests online due ...

Students around the country started taking new shortened, online Advanced Placement (AP) tests at home this week, and there are two versions about how well the experiment is going. The College Board, ...

To help in calling winners and explaining why candidates won, The Associated Press has been testing new ways to survey voters around Election Day. After all, in the last presidential election, more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education, edtech and higher education. 08 April 2020, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale): At the beginning of the summer ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As schools close across the United States due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), Advanced Placement (AP) exams will be held online and shortened to 45 minutes. College Board, which ...

Just before the College Board rolled out its first ever remote administration of Advanced Placement subject-matter tests, accusations of student cheating were already rising up. Trevor Packer, the ...

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Ritesh Verma was one of 2.8 million students who took an Advanced Placement (AP) exam last May. Under the watchful eye of a proctor, he took five pencil-and-paper tests, each one in a separate ...

Preparing for a major exam—one that you paid and studied months for—is stressful enough. On the big day, it’s all you can muster to calm your nerves, breathe, think and focus. Until, finally, you’re ...

For 65 years, the Advanced Placement test has been a hallmark of a rigorous high school education, allowing bright students to demonstrate mastery of a subject through a passing score that can lead to ...