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There was only one Advanced Placement, or AP, class at Washington's Cardozo Senior High School when Reginald Ballard took over as principal in 1995. But Ballard had heard that the program, which offers juniors and seniors the chance to earn college credit for their work if they score high enough on year-end exams, gave kids a leg up on getting into college. So over the past eight years, he has quadrupled the number of Cardozo students taking AP and increased the school's number of AP classes...
...achievement sounds like great news until you hear that only 5 of the 73 Cardozo students who took an AP exam last year scored a passing grade. And that number isn't likely to increase when the students at Cardozo, along with more than 1 million others across the country, get grades for the AP exams they took in May. Nationally about 63% of students who take the tests pass them, but just 42% of Washington public school students...
...other urban school districts across the country. A 2001 study by the Council of the Great City Schools, a group based in Washington that represents 60 of the nation's largest urban districts, found that while the majority of students nationally pass the exams in 7 of 12 AP subjects, those in urban school districts pass only 1 in 12. The problem is that many of these schools are pushing students into AP classes who aren't ready, and some of the schools don't have enough teachers who can teach college level work well...
...Sources: AP; Chicago Sun-Times; Guardian; New York Times (2); Smoking Gun; Wall Street Journal; Washington Post
Sources: CNN (2); SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (2); New York Times; Grist.com (2); AP...