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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 adopted a new methodology for scoring Advanced Placement course exam—and as a result, the percentage of students passing in nine exams has increased over the last three years. The ...
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 ...
This article originally appeared on Undark. Every May, millions of high school students in the United States and across the globe take specialized tests known as advanced placement (AP) exams. Offered ...
Ginette Sink was frustrated with her daughter’s Advanced Placement teacher for much of last school year, convinced the instructor had “rigid” grading policies in her ninth-grade human-geography class.
The College Board has issued a statement on behalf of itself and the Educational Testing Service, apologizing for a T-shirt that was made and sold by high school and college teachers who gathered in ...