Simply opening up access to honors and advanced courses is not enough to encourage substantial numbers of poor or minority students to take them, a study suggests. Published last month in American ...

Students like that taking AP courses saves them money and lets them earn college credit in high school. Hamasa Mashal is a junior at Turlock High School. This year, she is taking five AP classes: ...

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 ...

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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 ...

ODESSA, Texas — Senate Bill (SB) 2124 now requires schools to prepare their students for advanced mathematics, with the goal of having a higher percent of students ready for Algebra 1 in the eighth ...