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…About students who take college courses while in high school being more likely than their fellow students to do well in college.
“The Postsecondary Achievement of Participants in Dual Enrollment: An Analysis of Student Outcomes in Two States” finds that these courses seem to provide the most benefit to male students, students from low-income families, and those who struggled academically in high school.
Dual-enrollment programs, which allow students to take college classes for both high school and college credit, have become increasingly popular. The report is available at http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu.
...About another study of high school students taking college courses, in which a College Board audit found that most AP courses meet college-level standards. AP courses are advanced high school courses, taught by high school teachers, that can be used for college credit. The audit also identified thousands of courses that lost the right to identify themselves as part of the AP program.
Overall, of the 134,000 AP course syllabi submitted by teachers, 67 percent were approved on the first review, which included review by college professors. Of the 33 percent that were not immediately approved, some have since been approved.
Some 2,081 high schools that had been offering AP did not submit course syllabi to the audit and will no longer offer AP courses. More information on the audits can be found at www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/courseaudit.
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