Md. students score high in taking AP courses

" We think we are teaching at the college level " scares me. Are the AP course teachers frustrated because they are not teaching in colleges. Should 16-17 year old students wait for college to take college course. Isn't high school part of a porgression. Let teens be teens. Most will continue in higher ed for 4-6 years then onto an average of 35 years in the work place.

We need O'Malley to "fix" the state's schools. Get rid of Grasnick since obviously she is a Republican tool. We need all of Maryland's schools to be as good as Baltimore's schools under O'Malley. AP courses, who needs them!

[sarcasm] Thank goodness we have Martin O'Malley as governor who can deliver these types of successes in the school! Whatever would Maryland do without him? Surely it is his leadership and not Nancy Grasmick's that was able to get Maryland's schools to have such gains. It's a good thing that Martin O'Malley is here to deliver record setting tax increases so that he can get these kinds of results in our schools! Huzzah for Martin![/sarcasm]

I would be curious to know, of these statistics how many of these students attend or attended Private Schools.

Brian wrote:

" We think we are teaching at the college level " scares me. Are the AP course teachers frustrated because they are not teaching in colleges. Should 16-17 year old students wait for college to take college course. Isn't high school part of a porgression. Let teens be teens. Most will continue in higher ed for 4-6 years then onto an average of 35 years in the work place.

Yeah, let's dumb it down and focus on self-esteem. That's fair to those who want to get an edge by putting in the extra work to prep for an AP test, right? Schools should teach kids that they get rewarded for extra effort and difficult achievements -- just like real life.

Fred wrote:

I would be curious to know, of these statistics how many of these students attend or attended Private Schools.

Good question. I would assume the statistics are for all Maryland students, but I may be wrong. The school highlighted in the article is a public school in Howard County. 95% of a public school's graduates going to college is a really remarkable statistic.

Its probably also a lie. Schools pad there college bound percentages to make themselves look better.
Please tell us of that 95% that went on to college how many went to a Community College and never progressed past developmental classes.
Schools should not pad numbers at the expense of people. This whole article is a croc.

Fed up in Towson wrote:

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Good question. I would assume the statistics are for all Maryland students, but I may be wrong. The school highlighted in the article is a public school in Howard County. 95% of a public school's graduates going to college is a really remarkable statistic.