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Do AP classes help in college? Yep, if you take the test, more so if you pass it

Advanced Placement enrollment has more than doubled over the past decade as more high schools open up classes to less-prepared students and try to boost participation by lower-income and minority students, writes Jenny Brundin of Colorado Public Radio. However, taking an AP class doesn’t help students who don’t pass the exam, concludes Philip Sadler, director of the science education at Harvard’s Smithsonian… Read more →

A charter network bucking the status quo in a brand new way

Match Beyond has a bodacious goal: To invent a college program that wipes out undergraduate debt and cures poverty. Not the rarefied college designed for that by-the bootstraps, defy-the-odds high school senior trotted out for interviews and inspirational speeches when visitors come to high-poverty schools looking for their scholarship success stories. Nope, this is something that could be far more… Read more →

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