At first glance, AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition seem closely related. After all, both are designed to mirror college-level English courses and contain ...

Eliminating honors classes in ninth grade isn’t hurting high achievers, and it may be helping other students to succeed at college-acceptance-level courses, a Sequoia Union High School District report ...

Every year, students sit in hard plastic seats, sweating over essays analyzing the rise and fall of empires or summarizing the trends of electronegativities to explain atomic attraction. Is this too ...

Annie Abrams is a high school English teacher with a doctorate in American literary history from New York University. She has received well-deserved praise for her new book, “Shortchanged: How ...

Once again, I am sitting down with a parent to discuss her child's performance in school, specifically my English class. It's a parent-teacher conference day and I have, at this point in my career, ...

Financial rewards for teachers and students, plus the latest in technology, has enabled a number of Lake County schools to offer more Advanced Placement courses and to grow their enrollment. A ...

I had an interesting opportunity this semester to compare students who placed out of their first college English course based on Advanced Placement scores with those who didn’t. I’d like to share that ...

Imagine you're a freshman in high school. You love science, but you've never considered yourself a good enough student to do well in Advanced Placement biology. If you take it and succeed, you get ...