Dear Extra Credit: There has been one oversight in almost all the letters I've read concerning the debate over honors vs. Advanced Placement in Fairfax County. Rarely mentioned is that AP classes are ...

GREEN BAY − College is expensive. In the last decade, the cost of four-year public universities has increased by 10%, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. U.S. News and World ...

Hunting for the best education for her three young children, Traci Pietra fretted about low test scores at her Arlington neighborhood school. Then the principal told her about Randolph Elementary's ...

My daughter switched from a traditional education to an International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The IB system focuses on skill mastery over rote memorization and allows for student-led learning. My ...

High school students enrolled in the International Baccalaureate's Diploma Programme are required to study mathematics as one of six subject groups and must take at least one math course. However, as ...

At Minnetonka High School, students take advanced courses to bolster their chances of getting into a selective college or because they hope to get credit for a college class. Others sign up because of ...

Recent discussions on the size and cost of State College Area’s International Baccalaureate system have brought out staunch defenders of the small but mighty program inside the high school, raising ...

Nearly 100 percent of high schools are offering AP and IB classes or a college dual enrollment program, but recent data from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics ...

This academic year, Pinole Valley High School has become the West Contra Costa Unified School District’s first International Baccalaureate Diploma Program school. The nonprofit, Geneva, ...

When: School District of Lancaster school board meeting, Nov. 7. What happened: More students are taking Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses at J. P. McCaskey High School, and ...