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☆ The College Board is raking in cash as it promotes its AP exam among low-income students, many of whom are failing it
  + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
In 2023, a record number of low-income students took Advanced Placement exams. AdvertisementIn 2023, 38 percent of all test-takers scored a 1 or 2, with low-income students posting higher failure rates. The College Board, reflecting on its own analysis, stated that AP coursework boosts students across the board, independent of their respective scores on the exam. In 2023, a record 1.1 million students from low-income households took AP exams, per The Times. Overall, 5.2 million students sat down for AP exams in 2023, a more than threefold increase from 2002, when 1.6 million students took the exams.
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☆ A Brooklyn school's students fought to add AP African American Studies to their curriculum
  + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Janelle Griffith | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
"And I feel like us being mostly Hispanic, mostly African American students, mostly Caribbean students, we don't get to learn a lot about our cultures and the ways that we were thriving. Shannah Henderson speaks to a student during Brooklyn Preparatory High School's AP African American studies course in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Wednesday. Henderson said Trevor Packer, the senior vice president and the head of the AP Program and the instruction division, responded. She said that because she doesn't have a degree in African American studies, she was also required to take online courses at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. AP African American Studies is multidisciplinary, drawing from literature, the arts and humanities, political science, geography and science.
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