Advanced Placement Program

Trademark.

1. course descriptions, curriculum material, and tests provided by the College Entrance Examination Board to high schools, giving students the opportunity to complete college-level studies.

Example Sentences

College Board, the organization that created and oversees the Advanced Placement program, has been criticized by Black studies scholars and others of appeasing some conservatives by watering down or eliminating topics from the core materials of the new AP class, such as reparations, Black Lives Matter and Black queer studies.

From Los Angeles Times

Few organizations have had a more difficult time navigating these limitations than the College Board, whose Advanced Placement program offers 40 courses that are available across the country.

From New York Times

A third provision would allow the state to promote development of a separate set of exams to help high school students obtain college credit, a potential challenge to the College Board’s Advanced Placement program.

From Washington Post

The College Board, which administers the Advanced Placement program, released course curriculum details this month, which show that topics including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life are not part of the course’s exam, but are still included as potential research topics, along with “Black conservatism.”

From Washington Times

The College Board, which administers the Advanced Placement program, released course curriculum details this month, which show that topics including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life are not part of the course’s exam, but are still included as potential research topics, along with “Black conservatism.”

From Seattle Times