Advocacy organizations and policymakers have sought to encourage more students to enroll in Advanced Placement classes, a popular college-prep track, in recent years. Yet teachers are torn about whether all interested students should be allowed into those classes, or only those who meet certain academic pre-qualifications, as my colleague Stephen Sawchuk explains in a new story. He’s reporting on a new survey released by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
A version of this news article first appeared in the Curriculum Matters blog.