[Phys-l] study of IP and AB

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

The Fordham foundation recently put out a report evaluating AP 
and IB.  The evaluation goes into some detail.

Entry point:
  http://edexcellence.net/foundation/publication/publication.cfm?id=378
Nutshell summary:
  http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/APIB_Nutshell.pdf
Full report (52 pages) [recommended]:
  http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/APIB.pdf

And there is a Washington Post article on the subject that I found
amusing:
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/13/AR2007111300695.html?hpid=news-col-blog

To boil down the report to few sentences, the foundation found
the AP and IB situation to be "mostly encouraging".  This is in
stark contrast to their opinion of state standards, "which have 
consistently shown that expectations for American primary and 
secondary students are typically weak and watered down."