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Move to drop honors courses at Boston Latin worries some

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 19, Clicks: 0)  
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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.

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Honors Courses Give Way To AP Rigor

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 41, Clicks: 14)  
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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.

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