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AP Meanderings

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A collection of thoughts regarding the Advanced Placement Program, particularly helpful for AP Coordinators.

• Added on: Sep 15th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Mike
• Listed in: Secondary Education Software
• Tags: high school ap coordinator advance placement

Recent Posts

• U.S. News’ 2009 America’s Best High Schools

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 15:21 in article, data, rankings, score, US News, newsweek, advanced placement, ap, ib, best schools

  U.S. News and World Report  recently published their “America’s Best High Schools” and as predicted, it is ruffling  a few feathers as demonstrated by the comments on their website.  Both this ranking and the Newsweek ranking us...

• AP and IB Scheduling Conflicts

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 23:03 in resource, advanced placement, ap, coordinator, blog post, ib, international baccalaureate

  There are many schools in the US that have both large Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs.  These schools have the unique problem of working through scheduling exam conflicts between the two programs. The AP Program has an al...

• Teaching Girls to Tinker…and Boys for That Matter

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 10:32

   I recently came across a summary of an article by Education Week, “Teaching Girls to Tinker” that got me thinking.  While teaching science in both middle school and high school, it was clear that there was not a gender discrepancy in...

• The Confusing World of Weighted Grades.

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 15:47 in College, article, admissions, policy, gpa

  As soon as the “ink” dried on my last post, Weighted Grades – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,  I read an article about how the University of Michigan is going stop re-calculating GPAs.  Apparently the differences are not big enough...

• Weighted Grades – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 22:46 in school, student, article, admissions, policy, advanced placement, ap, gpa

  It seems that there are a large number of articles lately about schools/districts re-evaluating weighted grades and class rank (usually because of weighted). Weighted grades came about as a way to reward students for attempting more challenging c...

• Answers from the president of the College Board Part II

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 17:55 in College, article, admissions, advanced placement, ap, college board, blog post

  I am  greatly entertained with many of the comments on The Choice’s – Guidance Office series of Questions and Answers with Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board. It is clear that there are many who have an axe to grind with...

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