Expansion (1945 - 1965)
Advanced Placement Program
The Advanced Placement Program (APP) reflected the same ideals as the original College Board tests: to define academic knowledge. The program also served in providing a more academic curriculum in secondary schools.
Many educators and administrators in secondary and higher education believed that there was a lack of articulation between high school and college and that there was a general educational neglect of the talented student. They further believed that academically talented youth needed to be identified and that these youngsters needed stimulating educational experiences, both in the last two years of high school and the first two years of college.
Given these concerns, two programs emerged in 1951 that offered advanced academic coursework in high schools and encouraged colleges and universities to award advanced placement or standing to these students once they entered college. They were the School and College Study of General Education and the Kenyon Plan, also known as the School and College Study of Admissions with Advanced Standing. It was the Kenyon Plan that became the College Board's Advanced Placement Program.
