Advanced Placement
Cheating in Advanced Placement Classes
My son is a senior at a high school that loathes Advanced Placement classes. The school administrators believe that AP classes provide students with knowledge that’s a mile wide and an inch deep. Considering that AP classes demand a lot of memorization and must be taught at a breathless pace to get through the material, [...]
10Sep2009 | Lynn | 2 comments | Continued
A Great Addition to Advanced Placement Classes
Want your high school student to be prepared for college? You can find some of the best training wheels at community colleges.
For a high school student, taking a community college class is equivalent to enrolling in an Advanced Placement class. A friend of mine, who is a top dog at a community college district in [...]
Why Teens Take AP Classes
The number of high school students who are taking Advance Placement classes is skyrocketing. In 2002, 1 million students took at least one AP exam, but five years later the teens signinng up for a AP test jumped more than 50% to 1.6 million students.
Is all this popularity a good thing? Probably not.
Curious about [...]
Getting Higher Test Scores
What is the best way to earn higher test scores?
Reading your textbook and notes over and over again isn’t going to cut it, according to some new research.
While poring over the written material seems like a no brainer, researchers from Purdue and Washington University insist that it’s not the best approach.
Here’s a better way to [...]
Advance Placement Tests Revolt
I always love to read articles that question the wisdom of Advanced Placement courses that ambitious teenagers feel compelled to take in high school. Consequently, I enjoyed this New York Times’ article today that revisited the decision of a wealthy suburban high school to phase out AP classes.
A year after [...]
