Opening AP to All
The Duval County, Fla., district sees the courses as part of a shift to teaching more students college-level skills.
The floor in Sheri Porubski’s classroom is a minefield of backpacks. The desks are strewn with soda cans and candy wrappers. It’s lunchtime, and 20 teenagers have made this space their hangout.
Several students crowd around Ms. Porubski, asking questions about the lesson she taught in English class that morning. Others cluster around the room in twos and threes, helping one another interpret passages in...
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