By Scott Jaschik (Inside Higher Ed.). Eight elite private high schools in the Washington area this morning announced that they are dropping out of the Advanced Placement program. In a joint statement, they said that they were responding to “the diminished utility of AP courses and the desirability of developing our own advanced courses that […]
Read More »By Alina Tugand (The New York Times Magazine). … A.P. U.S. government, like the 38 other A.P. courses developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization, is a difficult class. Students are expected to read college-level textbooks, grasp complicated vocabulary and concepts and spend 30 minutes to an hour each night on homework. At the […]
Read More »(EdSource) by Carolyn Jones Educators were cheering over newly released results from the College Board showing significant increases in the number of females, Latino and African-American students who took either the Advanced Placement computer science exam or the new computer science principles exam this spring. “I am over the moon. These numbers are amazing,” said […]
Read More »(AL.com) Teachers in Alabama’s schools will implement new testing next year for students in public schools. After only four years of testing students, but following months of discussion of concerns with the ACT Aspire, the Alabama state board of education voted unanimously on Wednesday to ditch the test. State superintendent Michael Sentance told the […]
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