Amid the many signs of underperformance in American education, the growth and geographic spread of Advanced Placement courses in high schools is a widely admired success story. For several decades, AP ...

It helps that Reis created buzz phrases, songs, color-coded notecards and other catchy ways to help students remember the rules, shortcuts and perils. "Separate the xs and the ys before taking the ...

BATESVILLE , Ark. (KAIT) - “AP Calculus Class of 2020, my rockstars and idols, tomorrow will be a day to show the accumulation of your calculus knowledge,” wrote Batesville High School’s AP Calculus ...

The AP Calculus class at Marina High School recently completed their 3-D art projects under the direction of teacher Richard Boogar. Boogar said the project is designed to give students a real world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students enrolled in a Zoom AP Calculus class taught by Melissa Tighe (top left) at Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena expressed a ...

An Advanced Placement Calculus course definition at an Illinois High School is eliciting accusations of segregation. The discussion of race in the classroom has divided many across the nation, with ...

David Greene talks to advanced placement calculus teacher Anthony Yom about his classroom magic, and how he's gotten every one of his students for the past five years to pass the exam. Sorry to bring ...

In this bleak time for public education, I’ve been straining to decipher some silver linings. I thought I caught sight of one recently when Richard Barrera, a school board member for San Diego Unified ...

Stacey Roshan, an Advanced Placement calculus teacher at Bullis School--a private school for students grades three through 12 in Potomac, Md.--faced the problem of trying to keep her students engaged ...

Sam Calavitta presides over what may be the noisiest, most spirited math class in the nation. He greets each student personally, usually with a nickname (“Butterfly,” “Batgirl” and “Champ” are a few) ...