As educators, parents and students look forward to a holiday respite from the national bickering over standardized tests, we ought to consider, for a happy yuletide moment, the progress we have made ...

Achievement rates are up across Long Island on college-level Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams taken in the region's high schools, and New York State as a whole has moved up in ...

This chapter examines a number of ways in which the Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) programs and their assessment results are used. Some of these uses are appropriate and ...

Brooklyn’s District 13 has created New York City’s first International Baccalaureate pathway from 3-K through eighth grade, replacing gifted programs with inquiry-based learning for all students. The ...

D.C. public high schools sharply increased the number of college-level courses offered last year after research continued to show that such challenging programs gave students an important key to ...

A few years back, a groundswell of Brooklyn parents in District 13 wanted to ditch gifted and talented classes, concerned ...

The number of county students taking International Baccalaureate exams surged last school year, according to data recently released by the school system. But for the first time in at least a decade, ...

Santa Clara awards credit based on the Advanced Placement Program, the International Baccalaureate Program, University of Cambridge International Examinations, courses completed at other accredited ...