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...pass the AP exams still benefit from taking the classes because they're more likely to be successful in college. Even so, Washington schools are looking at ways to get more students passing the tests. The key, they say, is early exposure to difficult work. Accordingly, Cardozo is using grant money to coordinate its curriculum with that of some local middle schools, so that students can take the kinds of challenging classes that will better prepare them for AP when they get to high school. Similarly, Wilson has started an AP?prep program to ready high school sophomores and juniors...
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...
...guarantees students will have a rigorous curriculum. But AP can't make up for the stark differences that exist between schools or the students who attend them. While kids in strong suburban schools have usually attained solid foundations before they enroll for advanced-placement work, youngsters in schools like Cardozo have often experienced 10 or 11 years of lackluster education by the time they get to the AP classroom. "The elementary, middle and high school pathways need to be addressed for students to have meaningful success in advanced courses," said Jeannie Oakes, an education professor at UCLA...
...significant incentive is to tie teaching more closely to promotion through the HMS ranks, according to Cardozo...