Students like that taking AP courses saves them money and lets them earn college credit in high school. Hamasa Mashal is a junior at Turlock High School. This year, she is taking five AP classes: ...

The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for the college bound, the AP tests a chance for the best and ...

Houston Independent School District is overhauling how high school students are enrolled in advanced courses next year, automatically placing those who achieve at grade level into more challenging ...

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...

Iain Callan, a senior at Washington High School, works out a math problem. Callan has taken several advanced placement courses. Courtesy of the Canon-McMillan School District Ella Neiderer, a 2023 ...

High school students are more likely to choose honors and other advanced courses in their junior or senior years, but for some students, that might be too late. To ramp up the number of ...

This story about math equity was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

When: School District of Lancaster board meeting, Jan. 13. What happened: Administrators unveiled a plan to give middle ...

BRAINTREE - Did you like doing math in school? Many people didn't. But a non-profit in Massachusetts is increasing the number of students of color and low-income students in advanced level math ...