Inside Higher Ed

Diversifying AP

Does the Advanced Placement program promote racial justice, or not? The AP program seeks to provide a challenging college-level education to high school students so that they will be ready and able to ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The College Board’s Hollow Vision

T he College Board’s new AP course in African American studies was meant to be a crowning achievement for the organization. “We hope it will broaden the invitation to Advanced Placement and inspire ...
Teen Vogue

The College Board Doesn’t Care Enough About Students

In a recent Zoom meeting for my calculus class, my teacher explained the details of the upcoming advanced placement (AP) tests in May; College Board is offering both online and digital options, and ...
KARE 11

College tests and AP exams are moving to digital, here's what you need to know

MINNEAPOLIS — Big changes are coming for high school students who enroll in AP classes. College Board announced that final exams for 28 of its 36 AP subjects will be online this year. The exams will ...
Education Week

Here’s Why More Students Have Passed AP Exams in Recent Years

Some Advanced Placement teachers might have noticed that a higher percentage of their students received passing scores on the program’s year-end exams in the last few years. This year, 72 percent of ...
The Tufts Daily

The College Board has become indistinguishable from a hedge fund

Every spring, millions of high school students hunker down in classrooms as they prepare to take Advanced Placement exams. With the ability to award college credit at many universities with a score of ...
Business Insider

The College Board is raking in cash as it promotes its AP exam among low-income students, many of whom are failing it

In 2023, a record number of low-income students took Advanced Placement exams. The College Board made about $500 million in revenue as a result. The problem? A sizable number of those low-income ...
EdSurge

College Board Changes AP Exams Again to Accommodate Pandemic-Era Testing

Since the Advanced Placement (AP) program began in the 1950s, tens of millions of students have taken their exams in school, with paper and pencil, over the course of several hours. That format held ...
Daily Camera

Editorial: Skirmish over AP course raises questions – again – about College Board’s mission

The new Advanced Placement African American studies course was unveiled on the first day of Black History Month amid speculation that controversial subjects, such as Black Lives Matter and reparations ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Here’s how Utah students scored on AP exams in 2021, their second pandemic year

More Utah students took Advanced Placement exams in 2021 than in 2020, and the pass rate for students who graduated in 2021 was higher than pre-pandemic levels. Students earned a passing score on ...
Slate

The Sooner We Start Thinking of the College Board as a Business, the Better

If you’re a boomer like I am, and especially if you grew up on the East or West Coast, you have probably always been aware of the College Board. For us, it was just the company that created and ...