Fordham's latest report is out this morning; it focuses on the dramatic expansion of the Advancement Placement program in recent years. In 2002-2003, 1 million students participated in AP by taking at least one exam. Five years later, nearly 1.6 million did???a 50+ percent increase.
But is growth all good? Might there be a downside? Are ill prepared students eroding the quality of the program? Perhaps harming the best and brightest? To find out, we commissioned the Farkas Duffett Research Group to survey AP teachers in public high schools across the country.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the AP program remains very popular with its teachers. But there are signs that the move toward ???open door??? access to AP is starting to cause concern. Read the report to learn more. Also check out this video with Steve Farkas, the report's primary author, and this New York Times article.
One of the survey??questions :
Has the quality of your AP students in terms of their aptitude and capacity to do the work...
