High school students in Advanced Placement classes study hard for long and challenging AP exams given the first two weeks in May. Before the students get their grades, however, thousands of teachers ...

Erich Martel suspected something was wrong because nobody was telling him anything. But it was not until Aug. 17, less than two weeks before school started, that he learned he would not be teaching ...

Millions of high school students take Advanced Placement examinations each year. I have been grading the free-response questions on the AP Psychology exam for more than a decade. Over the years, I ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher ...

Just before former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins read his funny and moving poetry this week in front of 1,300 rapt Advanced Placement English teachers, he asked, “Why do so many of you do this for ...

I was saddened to hear of Daniel Doyle’s embittering stint as an AP World History exam reader at Colorado State University (The Chronicle, Letters, August 7). I assume that it was his first and last ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Every May, millions of high school students in the United States and across the globe take specialized tests known as advanced placement (AP) exams. Offered ...

Ginette Sink was frustrated with her daughter’s Advanced Placement teacher for much of last school year, convinced the instructor had “rigid” grading policies in her ninth-grade human-geography class.

Many teachers are spending their summer far, far away from tests and grading papers, but that's not the case for a select few who applied to grade boxes upon boxes of Advanced Placement exams at ...