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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Columbus McKinney is taking his fifth Advanced Placement course at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, undeterred even though he didn’t score high enough to get college credit ...

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 ...

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