That school likens its single-variable calculus MOOC to an Advanced Placement course for high-school students.
One indication of this trend is student interest in the Advanced Placement (AP) courses offered by the College Board.
Professor LARRY ROME (Biology, University of Pennsylvania): And he's taking all these advanced placement courses and they essentially have college textbooks.
The National Math and Science Initiative will be bringing Advanced Placement courses to tens of thousands of students, including military kids.
Apex, a provider of computer-based learning tools, began by targeting a specific type of low enrollment offering: advanced placement (AP) courses.
These were the people who were acing advanced placement courses in high school while I was struggling to remember my locker combination.
The International Baccalaureate program is not a high school Advanced Placement (AP).
Proponents say the August start dates allow more instruction time before students take mandatory state achievement tests and Advanced Placement and college-entrance exams.
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.
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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"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.
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.
This program will provide extra help to middle- and high school students who fall behind in reading and math, expand Advanced Placement programs in low-income schools, and invite math and science professionals from the private sector to teach part-time in our high schools.
"When you are looking at your final options, you want to set aside, for the time being, the emotional content and analyze things rationally, " says Anne Sturtevant, executive director of higher education at the College Board, provider of the SAT and Advanced Placement Program.
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.
That growing demand had The College Board survey high schools to determine the interest in advanced-placement exams for Mandarin.
As the advanced-placement economics students file into Room 339 at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan, Clarissa Bushman displays a graph on the overhead projector.
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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