<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">There are a lot of inaccuracies and unfounded conclusions in those brackets.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Will Fitzhugh <fitzhugh@tcr.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal;
-moz-font-language-override: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;"><font class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span"><i>Education Week</i></font></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;"><font class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span">May 8, 2013, </font></span><span class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span">p. 11</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span
style="letter-spacing:0px;"><font class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span">"Benefits of AP Program Questioned by Researcher" (excerpt)</font></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; min-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;"></span><br></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;"><font class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span">“...Last year, nearly <b>one in
five</b> high school graduates scored a 3 or higher </font></span><span class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span">(out of a possible 5) on an AP exam. That is up from <b>18.1 percent who passed</b> in 2011 and <b>11.6 percent </b>among the class of 2002. There were <b>954,070</b> public school students who took at least one AP exam last year, or 32.4 percent of 2012 graduates, up from 30.2 percent the year before and 18 percent of graduates in 2002, according to the most recent AP report from the College Board...”</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; min-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span"><span
style="letter-spacing:0px;"></span><br></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;"><font class="yiv7352568029Apple-style-span">[<b>A score of 3 is passing</b> on an AP exam. So, more than<b> 80 percent</b> of the students who took AP classes, with an AP curriculum, and AP-trained teachers, <b>failed the exam in 2012</b>, and, while that is an improvement over the<b> 88.4%</b> who failed eleven years ago in 2002, it is barely regarded as news...Oh, and all 954,070 students no doubt paid for the exam.]</font></span></span></div></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>