Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment

The Hechinger Report - Sarah Butrymowicz "Principal Lori Wyborney and [...]

March 11th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Advanced Placement, College and Career Readiness, College Degree, College-prep, College/University, Current Events, Education, High School, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.), Washington|Tags: Education, schools|

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California students again rank 5th in latest AP exam scores

Ed Source - Fermin Leal "Three out of 10 of [...]

February 22nd, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Advanced Placement, California, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, High School, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Are You Ready for AP Classes?

The Huffington Post - Chuck Cohn "The benefits of completing [...]

August 20th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Advanced Placement, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, High School, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Will the Decline of AP Course Offerings Spur the Rise of Course Access?

Education Next - Julia Freeland Fisher "Last month, Nat Malkus [...]

February 22nd, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Advanced Placement, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Black and Latino students in California score better on AP tests than peers elsewhere

The Los Angeles Times - Sonali Kohli "Black and Latino [...]

September 3rd, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Advanced Placement, African American, California, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Hispanic, Learning, School, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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A Pause in the History Wars

Education Next - Chester E. Finn, Jr. "What’s taught to [...]

August 9th, 2015|Categories: Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Advanced Placement, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, High School, History, Learning, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, School|

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A Few Lessons That AP U.S. History Can Teach the Common Core

Education Next - Frederick Hess "Yesterday the College Board released [...]

August 2nd, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Advanced Placement, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Common Core Standards, High School, History, Learning, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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New guidelines for AP history: Are they still ‘unpatriotic’?

The Christian Science Monitor - Kevin Truong "In the wake [...]

August 1st, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Advanced Placement, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, High School, History, Learning, Teacher|Tags: Education, schools|

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Dual-language elementary students performed as well as AP high schoolers in Mandarin, study says

KPCC - Deepa Fernandes "A new Stanford University study reports [...]

July 1st, 2015|Categories: Advanced Placement, Dual-language, Elementary School, High School, Language, Language Immersion, Mandarin, Second Language|Tags: Education, School|

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How to Get More Girls Involved in STEM

Time - Christina Wallace and Nathalie Molina Nino "Three years [...]

May 6th, 2015|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Advanced Placement, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Girls, Learning, STEM, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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