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High school advancement placement classes can help students save some money on college tuition costs, but it can also help students be well-prepared for the challenge or win secure some other tuition money from scholarships or grants -
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Designed to “bring life to history” and includes great resources for teachers. There are six major topics covered. For each, primary documents are available as are lesson plans, videos and questions (called DBQs or Stepping Stones depending on the grade level) to prepare students for AP exams and develop writing skills. -
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In past eras, good high schools provided the educational foundation for an intellectual awakening in college. But for the mostly affluent students in private and competitive public schools — from T.J. (as Thomas Jefferson is known) to urban intellectual cocoons like Bronx Science and Stuyvesant — high school has become the defining academic experience. -
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Extra credit for AP courses, parental lobbying and genuine hard work by the most competitive students have combined to shatter any semblance of a Bell curve, one in which 'A's are reserved only for the very best. For example, of the 47,317 applications the University of California, Los Angeles, received for this fall's freshman class, nearly 21,000 had GPAs of 4.0 or above. -
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In my high school biology, chemistry, and physics labs, my safety goggles were always too fogged-up for me to see what I was doing. I don't remember learning a thing as I blindly followed the step-by-step instructions. Maybe I would have been better off blowing stuff up in a virtual chemistry lab! -
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Created by a New York high school history teacher, this website is a tremendous resource for U.S. history, European history, or economics classes. This website includes actual prior AP exams organized by category; links to numerous resouces; and ideas for assignments such as a mock trial to impeach Andrew Jackson, among others. It's a helpful resource for both teachers and students. -
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Advanced Placement Program
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