Learning From The Advanced Placement Tests | Intellections

The Advanced Placement (AP) program is a gold standard of intellectual achievement. Students who complete AP classes are more likely to succeed in college and attain an in-depth understanding of a subject. It is not only voluntary and independent from government oversight, but it works within any educational system. Expanding the AP program has become a critical means to equalize opportunity for hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged students.

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[JH-tcwb]

Here lies the question: Why not just improve the traditional education model into a system not built on memorization, but rather "deeper understanding"? Advanced placement sounds like how things should already work.

[thematsby]

It's unfortunate that AP/IB is so expensive and subject to regional monopolies at worst, and oligopoly at best.

[bobbeckel]

Is it non-discriminatory? That is, no point skewing based on anything like race, gender, or economic background?
Every "advantage" Affirmative Action was claimed to give children ended up screwing them.