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...feed the demand, the College Board, the New York City--based company best known for administering the SAT, keeps creating new AP courses and exams. Back in 1955, when AP was introduced, there were 11 courses. By 1990 there were 29. Today there are 34, ranging from Music Theory to Computer Science. Next fall there will be three more: Italian, Russian and Chinese. It's a booming business for the nonprofit College Board, which sells teaching guides and seminars to instructors, study guides and practice exams to students, and charges $82 for an AP exam. (Much of this covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Smart Is AP? | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

While Ec 10’s hourly will take place as scheduled, other courses have been more flexible with their exam dates...

Author: By Michael F. Chion, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exams May Spoil Election Night | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...10—the College’s largest course with 639 students enrolled—will hold its first hourly exam, as planned, on Nov. 3, the day after the election...

Author: By Michael F. Chion, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exams May Spoil Election Night | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

Professor Andrew Engelward, who teaches Math 21a, “Multivariable Calculus,” also rescheduled his midterm because of the election. Originally, the exam for the 290-student course was on the night of Nov. 2, but Engelward changed it to Thursday...

Author: By Michael F. Chion, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exams May Spoil Election Night | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...always readable and clear, moves ably back and forth from conventional comix storytelling to more metaphorical sequences explaining the science. Still, "Suspended in Language" does better at dramatizing Bohr's life than at illuminating his theories. If, like me, you couldn't pass a current high school physics exam, you will likely find much of the high math and various connections between ideas a bit heady and confusing. Fortunately, the pacing of the book is such that even if you don't totally get, say, the importance of Planck's Constant or even what it is, Ottaviani's enthusiasm still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unified Comix Theory | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

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