Professor LARRY ROME (Biology, University of Pennsylvania): And he's taking all these advanced placement courses and they essentially have college textbooks.

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The National Math and Science Initiative will be bringing Advanced Placement courses to tens of thousands of students, including military kids.

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These were the people who were acing advanced placement courses in high school while I was struggling to remember my locker combination.

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High schools have -- with high numbers of military students -- are adding more Advanced Placement courses so that these kids have the opportunities they deserve to compete for college.

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Thanks to this bill, despite the cuts, any school in any part of Utah could have offered its students a full slate of courses all 34 Advanced Placement courses and multiple foreign languages, for example next year from day one.

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Also the National Math and Science Institute, the military, and major companies are working together all across the country to offer math and science Advanced Placement courses to high schools with large numbers of military students, including right here in Tidewater -- the Tidewater area.

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"She was terrified to tell because she would not be able to take the advanced placement college courses (which he taught), " says Yolanda Wu, an attorney with the National Organization For Women (NOW) Legal Defense Fund.

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One indication of this trend is student interest in the Advanced Placement (AP) courses offered by the College Board.

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Apex, a provider of computer-based learning tools, began by targeting a specific type of low enrollment offering: advanced placement (AP) courses.

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Mark Dixon, the governor's adviser for education, says that several years ago fewer than half of Alabama's public high schools offered any college-level Advanced Placement (AP) courses.

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But to meet admissions standards for Ivy League schools, Luke had to take such a heavy load of courses, advanced-placement exams and extracurricular activities that he worked seven days a week for almost two years.

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