Feb. 20, 2013— -- Advanced Placement classes in high schools across the country are becoming more diverse, and students are scoring higher on the exams than ever before.

AP offers courses in calculus, biology, chemistry, physics, and environmental science, as well as English literature, U.S. history, the arts, humanities, and foreign languages. About 760,000 ...

The data echoes other studies of the achievement gap in math and science. Education Trust-West published a report in 2017 that found that in California, only 11 percent of students learning English ...

A report recently issued by a work group for the University of California’s Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS) concluded that the three most popular high school data science ...

Some schools utilize test scores to place students into advanced or regular math classes. Getty Images Texas is home to more than 1,000 school districts, which means vastly different ways students ...

Amazon Future Engineer students. (Business Wire Photo) Amazon said its Future Engineer program will fund computer science classes at more than 1,000 high schools in all 50 states by this fall.

High school Advanced Placement classes, widely viewed as key to admission to top-tier colleges, are proliferating so rapidly that many educators say their quality is being diluted and school ...

Taking advanced classes improves a student’s chances of going to college, studies find. But Black and Latino students were far less likely have access to or enroll in those classes.

Much of the concern around data science in California centers around three programs — Introduction to Data Science, Youcubed and CourseKata — that make up the majority of data science courses ...

The district streamlined language arts and some math and science course offerings for students by eliminating remedial courses and merging introductory “advanced” and “grade level” courses ...