Notes from UW-Madison and Madison West High on AP Standards

Danielle Repshas:

“Still, there is not an absolute guarantee that a course [called] one thing someplace has the same rigor somewhere else,” Reason said.

Part of the challenge is judging the standards of one AP class from another at different high schools, and Reason said the level of trust colleges and secondary schools have with one another is one way colleges try to establish relationships with high schools. But Reason said he is concerned about the competition level at high schools in terms of coursework because schools in some areas do not have the same rigor in their coursework with respect to others.

The article includes a comment regarding Madison West High School's limited approach:

In fact, there are only a handful of AP classes at Madison West, and most students aren't interested in them. They'd rather take more stimulating and challenging classes.

Marcia Gevelinger Bastian touched on the issue of West's limited number of AP classes here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 6, 2007 7:09 AM
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