<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div>Jay Mathews set me straight. I had not realized the the EdWeek<div>compared AP failures to the total number of HS seniors.</div><div><br></div><div>So the AP failure rate is only 50%. Is that OK?</div><div>The College Board still takes in the money...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Will Fitzhugh</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Mathews, Jay" <<a href="mailto:Jay.Mathews@washpost.com">Jay.Mathews@washpost.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 11, 2013 8:50:24 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Will Fitzhugh <<a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org">fitzhugh@tcr.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>RE: AP Exam Results</b><br></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><br></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div ocsi="0" fpstyle="1" style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4">This is a rare instance when you misinterpreted a statistic, Will. The failure rate on AP exams these days is about 50 percent, not 80 percent. The 21 percent figure is the equity and excellence rate, which is the percentage of ALL seniors, including those who never took AP, who had at least one passing grade on an AP test some time in high school. ---jay</font></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><br><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><hr tabindex="-1"><div id="divRpF458840" style="direction: ltr; "><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Will Fitzhugh [fitzhugh@tcr.org]<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, May 11, 2013 7:44 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Catherine Gewertz<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>AP Exam Results<br></font><br></div><div></div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; min-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><i>Education Week</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">May 8, 2013, </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">p. 11</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">"Benefits of AP Program Questioned by Researcher" (excerpt)</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; min-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; min-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">“...Last year, nearly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>one in five</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>high school graduates scored a 3 or higher </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">(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></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; min-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; min-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">[<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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>88.4%</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; 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