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>Probably the solution is to have high standards for all students and classes they all can participate in. Well, one could propose that "AP Calculus" should be
by jasode 6y ago
>Probably the solution is to have high standards for all students and classes they all can participate in.
Well, one could propose that "AP Calculus" should be the high standard for a high-school diploma for _all_ students but neither the parents nor teachers would support that.
EDIT to reply: the "AP Calculus" was just a placeholder that people are familiar with and not intended as a tangent into any hidden self-serving agenda of The College Board revenue generation. We can just call it "Calculus 101" for purposes of this discussion. The parents would not universally support passing "Calculus 101" as a mandatory requirement for their child to get a high-school diploma.
- OldHand2018 6y agoIt’s no surprise that parents and teachers would not support “AP Calculus” as a standard, as it is run by the College Board with no oversight. The school has to pay for each child enrolled and pay again if the child doesn’t take the exam at the end of the class, the exams are graded but offer zero feedback to the teacher or student. They have annual revenue >$1B with over $100 million in “excess revenue” (you can’t call it profit because they are a non-profit). The CEO earns over $1 million per year, sold his education consulting company to a huge education textbook publisher, claims that he “had” to get a job at McKinsey because he couldn’t find work as a high school English teacher, etc. You think this would be an improvement?