Quotas compromising AP
Topics: AA
07 Apr 2008
From: Ervan Darnell
>Following the end of the 2008-09 academic year, there will be no AP courses or exams in Italian, Latin literature, French literature, and computer science AB, [...]
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>Mr. Packer said the decision was made principally because of demographic considerations.
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>Only a tiny fraction of the members of underrepresented minority groups who take AP exams take the tests in one of those four affected subject areas, he said.
[1]
So the result is to discourage those courses at the high school level in an effort not to make minorities look bad. So, is it a quota or a preference? I can't tell, but it sure doesn't look like a good thing.
[1] http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/04/09/32ap.h27.html
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