As students in advanced placement classes settle into a new school year, they are struck with a new policy restricting iPads. As of the 2015 school year, most social media is now banned on school iPads....

The beginning of the school year is always hectic, as students accustom to the individualistic teaching styles, different class structures and schoolwork overload. Students seeking academic challenge and...

[vsw id="94559525" source="vimeo" width="600" height="460" autoplay="no"] Words from teachers and students about what the AP test entails and the best ways to prepare for it. video by Eric Glennon

Once the red font appears across the banner on the Columbia Public Schools website, students instantly anticipate a day of relaxation, sledding and perhaps some hot chocolate. With the announcement of...

In recent years, taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to nudge more students into Advanced Placement classes, according to the educational news site, politico.com, by promoting classes...

The social studies  teachers have decided to combine honors and regular World and U.S. Studies classes. Students in studies classes will “contract” for honors credit next year by showing more analysis,...

After a year of AP learning, students gaze at the final element of their course during these first few weeks of March. Columbia Public Schools offers more than 20 different Advanced Placement classes...

Gravitational forces in history have had a mixed reception. Though they have kept us all from flinging into space, they have also led to numerous deaths by drowning, falling, dropping off rocks and, indirectly,...

  A college readiness program focused on “the academic middle,” Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), impacts nearly 5,000 schools across 46 states, according to its website. If approved...

No matter how they cut it, a hard fact of life for high school seniors is that college is expensive. According to U.S. News, the average cost of college in 2010 was about $20,000 for public schools and...