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 ...

AP classes are college-level courses aimed at high-achieving high school students. About 40 AP subjects are available, but most schools only offer a select number of these courses.

In her book, Abrams focuses on the history of AP, particularly how scholars and teachers developed the college-level English classes she has been teaching at the Bronx High School of Science, a ...

Currently, there are 38 AP courses in the Arts, English, History & Social Science, Math & Computer Science, Science, and World Languages & Cultures, although not all are offered at every high school.

While IB classes attract a notable number of students every year, AP classes attract even more: nearly 3 million, in fact. -- Research the AP policies at your prospective colleges to maximize ...

In another AP English class, for seniors, the end-of-year vocabulary review featured words more often seen on sixth-grade lists, such as “optimistic,” “irate” and “benevolent.” ...

MOST HIGH SCHOOLS aren’t in the enviable position of having too many students enrolled in too many AP courses. Sixty-one of the more than 360 public high schools in Massachusetts now participate ...

At the end of sophomore year, I hesitated before registering for 11th-grade classes. Most of my choices had been obvious, and English should have been too — I had already received approval to… ...

My classes were always open to any student willing to accept the “AP challenge.” Many struggled with the workload initially, but most persevered. That is what an AP class is about.

AP English Literature has only two class periods for senior students. It is taught by Mrs. Collene Valle and Mrs. Mandy Jepsen, and their class periods have a low enrollment with less than 20 students ...