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Re: AP prgrams report published



Right. If it's not a substitute for the college's course, the institution
won't accept it for credit.

bc


James Braunsdorf wrote:

I think they might have a point about what a great high school course should
do, but they miss the whole point about what the AP program was set up to
do. It was designed to give credit as if you had taken a beginning college
course but happened to do it in high school. Given that, the way to force AP
courses to be better is to make the beginning college courses better.
Jim Braunsdorf

An interesting report for those dealing with AP/IB Math and Science.
Reposted from modeling-l

Dan M

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ
Univ
danmac@nau.edu http://purcell.phy.nau.edu PHYS-L list
owner


Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:14:24 -0600
From: Paul Gregg Swackhamer <pswackhamer@GLENBROOK.K12.IL.US>
Subject: The AP Science Program Analyzed

A very good critique of the AP and International Baccalaureate programs =
was just released (2/14) by the National Academy of Sciences. It is worth =
a read, especially given the widespread misunderstanding of what the AP =
program really does for us.

Here's the URL:

http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309074401?OpenDocument

Gregg Swackhamer
Glenbrook North High School
2300 Shermer Road
Northbrook, IL 60062

Voice: 847-509-2612
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