<P> After the end of World War II , the Ford Foundation created a fund that supported committees studying education . The program , which was then referred to as the `` Kenyon Plan '' , was founded and pioneered at Kenyon College in Gambier , Ohio , by the then - college president Gordon Chalmers . The first study was conducted by three prep schools -- the Lawrenceville School , Phillips Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy -- and three universities -- Harvard University , Princeton University and Yale University . In 1952 they issued the report General Education in School and College : A Committee Report which recommended allowing high school seniors to study college level material and to take achievement exams that allowed them to attain college credit for this work . The second committee , the Committee on Admission with Advanced Standing , developed and implemented the plan to choose a curriculum . A pilot program was run in 1952 which covered eleven disciplines . In the 1955 - 56 school year , it was nationally implemented in ten subjects : Mathematics , Physics , Chemistry , Biology , English , History , French , German , Spanish , and Latin . </P>
<P> After the end of World War II , the Ford Foundation created a fund that supported committees studying education . The program , which was then referred to as the `` Kenyon Plan '' , was founded and pioneered at Kenyon College in Gambier , Ohio , by the then - college president Gordon Chalmers . The first study was conducted by three prep schools -- the Lawrenceville School , Phillips Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy -- and three universities -- Harvard University , Princeton University and Yale University . In 1952 they issued the report General Education in School and College : A Committee Report which recommended allowing high school seniors to study college level material and to take achievement exams that allowed them to attain college credit for this work . The second committee , the Committee on Admission with Advanced Standing , developed and implemented the plan to choose a curriculum . A pilot program was run in 1952 which covered eleven disciplines . In the 1955 - 56 school year , it was nationally implemented in ten subjects : Mathematics , Physics , Chemistry , Biology , English , History , French , German , Spanish , and Latin . </P>
when did ap classes start in high school
when did ap classes start in high school
the 1955 - 56 school year
the 1955 - 56 school year