The Huffington Post – Justin Pope
“In the next two weeks, 2 million students will take 3.7 million end-of-year AP exams – figures well over double those from a decade ago. With no national curriculum, AP has become the de facto gold standard for high school rigor. States and high schools are pushing AP classes and exams as a way to raise standards across the board, in some cases tying AP to bonuses.”(more)