Education News and Bookmarking for Mathetude community http://www.mathetude.com:80/rss/stories/upcoming.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/images/logo.png http://www.mathetude.com:80/ vi-vn Copyright (c) 2007 Mathetude.com javacola@gmail.com Wed Feb 08 10:44:13 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ Not long ago, honors courses were considered a hallmark of student achievement, a designation that impressed colleges and made parents beam. Now, those courses are vanishing from public schools nationwide as administrators move toward a more inclusive curriculum designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to join their high-achieving peers in college-level Advanced Placement classes. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14314.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14314.html Mathetude PiGuy 10/01/2012 More Fairfax County students — and particularly more Hispanic and black students — are taking college-level AP and IB exams, according to data released by the school system. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14313.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14313.html Mathetude PiGuy 10/01/2012 Boston Latin School is dropping its honors courses next year, a move administrators say will prepare more students for Advanced Placement classes in their junior and senior years, though some parents fear the change will have a negative impact on their children’s college admission chances. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/9596.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/9596.html Mathetude nitajo 28/02/2010 The decline of honors courses mirrors the expansion of AP and IB, nationally recognized programs that present high school students with college-level work. In many area schools, those programs have effectively replaced honors as the top college-preparatory track. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4080.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4080.html Mathetude nitajo 19/05/2008