Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advanced Placement program is developing too rapidly for its own good, the latest reports of its founders indicate. Last year 3,000 people took the tests; this year 17,000 are expected to register. The Educational Testing Service, which runs the project, expects to lose $100,000 on the A.P. program this year and even more in the future...
...moment, ETS is perfectly capable of absorbing the loss with profits from its regular College Boards, but as the Advanced Placement program grows in size, such support will become financially impossible. The money must come from some other source; either students or schools or colleges must take over the economic burden...
...relation between Advanced Placement credits and requirements for concentration and degrees is still hazy; probably it is most muddled in the English Department. A new Sophomore with A.P. in, say, mathematics, American History, and English Literature would have been presented at registration with a green slip which said, "You can not take the following courses for credit: Math 1; Chemistry 1 or 2; one course in English...
Probably the biggest academic hitch in the Advanced Placement plan is the A.P. Sophomore's forced choice of major. With the speeded-up Honors program and its sophomore essays, junior generals, and the like, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the selection of a field of concentration must be made at the beginning of Sophomore year, if at all possible. A choice delayed to the middle of Sophomore year is risky but conceivable. As far as Honors goes, no choice made any later is likely to yield a successful Honors candidate...
...student who can amass enough learning to get Advanced Placement in three courses is often one with widespread interests. Not all A. P. students get advancement in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics; some get it in Mathematics, American History, and French. Thus, a boy with enough interest in widely separated areas to take stiff, advanced classes in all of them must almost immediately make up his mind to forsake two of them. One of the greatest benefits of Freshman year is that it can give an opportunity to consider the problem of devoting one's self to a single area...