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...official from Harvard’s Italian program said that the College Board’s decision to cut the Advanced Placement Italian exam starting next year might reduce the number of undergraduates pursuing citations, secondary fields, and concentrations in the language. Elvira G. DiFabio, the Italian program’s director of undergraduate studies, said the College Board’s decision was “really unfortunate” because AP Italian allows “more freshmen into the advanced classes” and “may even lead them to consider a concentration...
...offered after these changes. The College Board cannot continue to offer two exams in each of these areas while simultaneously working toward its new goal of increasing support for teachers in these subjects, Jennifer L. Topiel, the executive director of communications, wrote in an e-mail. Elvira G. DiFabio, associate director of undergraduate studies in Italian, said that the suspension of the AP Italian exam will affect students pursuing a secondary field in Italian, because they may have to start at a lower level than if they had experience in an advanced Italian course in high school...
John J. Rector `99 and Elvira G. DiFabio, senior preceptor in Romance languages and literatures, organized the event...
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