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High school students wanting to take the Advanced Placement tests to get college credit have new guidance about when those tests will be given in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic The College Board said for the 2020 tests only, the AP exams will be offered at home from May 11-22. Normally two to three hours long, the tests will…

A more than 15-year push came to an end last year when Duke launched its Asian American Studies program. It is the only one of its kind in the American South, according to its director, Nayoung Aimee Kwan. Duke is one of the latest colleges to establish an Asian American studies program among a push across U.S. campuses for the...

A more than 15-year push came to an end last year when Duke launched its Asian American Studies program. It is the only one of its kind in the American South, according to its director, Nayoung Aimee Kwan. Duke is one of the latest colleges to establish an Asian American studies program among a push across U.S. campuses for the...

The SAT exam, used by a majority of colleges to grant entrance, will be adding an “adversity score” to the test that will take into account a student’s socioeconomic background in an effort to help colleges take a more rounded approach in the admissions process. The new measure, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is aimed at factoring in...

There’s no doubt that college is expensive. Tuition and fees for a four-year private college averaged $35,830 in 2018-19; at four-year in-state public colleges, it was $10,230, according to the College Board. And that doesn’t count room and board or other expenses.

A college degree has long been a ticket to the U.S. middle class. It typically confers higher pay, stronger job security, greater home ownership and comparatively stable households. Those benefits have long been seen as worth the sacrifices often required, from deferred income to student debt. Yet college graduates aren’t as likely as they once were to feel they belong...

The rising cost of college has left many families looking for creative ways to avoid massive college debt. According to a new report from Consumer Reports, more and more college scholarships are now offered.  “I cried. I cried so hard,” Marilu Duque told Consumer Reports after receiving her scholarship. “I was like, this is everything I ever wanted.” Consumer...

The most brazen abuses of standardized testing in the college bribery scandal could be chalked up to security lapses: the ringer hired to take the SAT, the proctors paid to look the other way, the accommodations for extra time obtained through false diagnoses of disabilities. But the scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed their children’s way into top schools...

The latest scandal to taint college athletics hit sports far from the spotlight and exposed a seamy side door into some of the nation’s elite universities: coaches taking bribes to recruit non-athletes and help them ease past tough admissions policies. Federal indictments unsealed in Boston on Tuesday outlined a sweeping college admissions bribery scandal that ensnared coaches and officials at...

A college entrance exam policy aimed at helping students with disabilities was exploited to enable cheating in what is being described as the biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted by federal authorities, according to court papers made public Tuesday. At least 50 people were charged in the scheme, which included not only cheating on the admissions tests but also bribing...

Wealthy parents are accused of paying bribes as part of a scheme to guarantee admissions for their children at elite schools.

A South Florida student is speaking out to defend her SAT score after testing officials say a 300-plus point increase could be evidence of cheating.

Leaders of some of Washington, D.C.’s top private schools announced this week they are eliminating advanced placement classes by 2022, drawing attention to the “diminished utility” of the courses in a joint statement. Instead, the schools plan to offer classes geared toward “collaborative, experiential and interdisciplinary learning,” according to the statement, which also explained students feel pressured to take the...

“The economy,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell declared this week, “is doing very well.” And it is. Steady hiring has shrunk unemployment to 3.8 percent — the lowest since the 1960’s. Consumers are spending. Taxes are down. Inflation is tame. Factories are busy. Demand for homes is strong. Household wealth is up. Yet the numbers that collectively sketch a picture...

Some Scripps Ranch High School parents are still waiting for the full refund they were promised on their students’ invalidated Advanced Placement exams.

NBC 7’s Wendy Fry speaks with parents who were supposed to receive refund checks for students who did not wish to re-take advanced placement exams after their first tests were invalidated.

Students taking the English Literature and U.S. History AP exams will begin the test.

A federal judge ruled that over 500 students from Scripps Ranch High School will have to retake their Advanced Placement (AP) test scores Friday.

The San Diego Unified School Board voted unanimously Thursday to take legal action against the College Board after Advanced Placement (AP) test scores from Scripps Ranch High School were invalidated.