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Advanced Pressure (from Advanced Placement exams) (video)
New York Times ^
| January 25, 2010
Posted on 01/26/2010 5:13:22 AM PST by reaganaut1
The filmmaker Vicki Abeles features the stories of students and teachers of Advanced Placement classes and the pressures they face in our achievement-obsessed culture.
(Excerpt) Read more at video.nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: advancedplacement; collegeadmissions; highschool
We need more American students to exert themselves in high school, not fewer. Advanced placement courses are not for everyone -- neither is college. AP credits do enable students to save time and money -- I graduated from college in three years because of them. I think part of the problem is that because much of American education is so undemanding, students are surprised by the workload of an AP class and may not have the background for it. Their earlier courses should have been more rigorous.
To: reaganaut1
This is ridiculous! Just one more example of coddling our young and turning them into infantile adults.
The Honors and AP classes in schools today are like the REGULAR classes in high schools 40 years ago! (Even those were a lot less demanding than what was required in the early 20th century!)
To: reaganaut1
“achievement-obsessed culture”???
Compared to which cultures? The Sudanese?
Try going thru compulsories in any British-Asian high school, aiming for a college slot.
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