Hello Matt!
Replying to a message of Matt Smith to Charles Beams:
 MS>     If "national standards" are needed for HS students, isn't the AP 
 MS> program a poor choice?     Most HS students don't go on to college
 MS> immediately after HS and others  never attend a 4-year college, so
 MS> there's _no_ incentive for them offered  by AP-derived credit if they
 MS> study hard enough.  Others attend colleges  with such lax academic
 MS> standards that the student would find it easier to  loll his way
 MS> through a regular college course in many freshman courses than  to
 MS> pass an AP test...so where's the incentive for them?
Money.  It typically costs over $300 for a college course, while it costs $80 
to take the AP test, less in some districts.  We have many students who 
graduate from high school as college sophomores.
With our program, they've spent less than $150 dollars for a full year of 
college.  If the kiddoes don't see the benefit, the parents sure do and kick 
some rear.
Kathleen
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