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OPINION: Here are some ideas for helping rural students prepare for and graduate from college

The Hechinger Report

And I did get out, from Ohio’s Appalachian foothills to a university near Cincinnati. Among the 22 school districts within these five counties, less than half had any level of student participation in AP courses. Of those, most had AP participation rates near or below 10 percent of the student body.

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The 21-Day Challenge: Can you keep students engaged after the final exam?

Fractus Learning

In a course like AP Macroeconomics, which I taught to 60 American public high school students this spring, there is more substance than most teenagers can master in one semester. After all, my students had worked extremely hard to learn AP Macro in such a brief time, and they surely deserved a break. That was a nonstarter.

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As final year of college planning unfolds at Match: ‘What’s it gonna take?’

The Hechinger Report

Match, like many of its peers in the rapidly growing charter school sector, offers an extended day and demanding curriculum filled with Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Doesn’t early decision improve your chances of getting in?’’ Three-quarters of this year’s senior class have either taken at least one AP or are enrolled in one.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via the AP : “ Michelle Obama plans to promote her year-old global girls’ education initiative during upcoming stops in Liberia , Morocco and Spain on what could be her final solo overseas excursion as first lady.” ” Via the AP : “Gov. ” (Hmm.