[Ohiogift] Is the expansion in AP helping students?

[Art Snyder]

      Friends:
 
 While helping some students (in various ways), the expansion of the Advanced Placement (AP) program is generating challenges for many others. Dartmouth College recently announced that the school will no longer give college credit to incoming students for their AP successes. The school suggests that the expansion of the AP program has resulted in watered-down coursework that no longer meets expectations of high school classes seemingly worthy of college credit. The full story is here:
 http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dartmouth-college-ending-advanced-placement-credit
 
 The decision of Dartmouth College might presage similar actions by other colleges. This might have an impact on today's high school and middle school students in gifted ed. Has any current gifted ed program responded to similar denial of college credits, and what is being done about this? Or is this more of an AP predicament?

--Art Snyder
 
   
 
  
 
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     Friends:
  
  The Baltimore Sun ran a long story about enhanced access to AP classes in Maryland this week.? Below is an excerpt from the Public Education News summarizing the report and a link to the original story.
  
  Margaret
  
  
 
   
      
  

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