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Nearly All Area AP Teachers Get Passing Grades in Audit
By Daniel de Vise
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 25, 2008; Page B01
When the College Board announced last year that every high school Advanced Placement teacher would have to prove he or she was actually teaching a college-level course, there was widespread fear the process would purge worthy teachers from the program, weeding out good courses along with the bad.
They needn't have worried. In the first quality-control audit of the AP program, no AP teacher or course was rejected in the Fairfax, Montgomery, Prince George's or District school systems, according to area education officials. Of the 146,671 AP courses submitted for review nationwide, 136,853, or 93 percent, were approved.
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I'm anxious to see if the teachers that have a consistent average of between 1.6 and 2.0 "passed" the audit?
If they do, it simply means the audit isn't worth crap.
But the ease with which many teachers passed the audit has prompted some to question its value. Thousands of teachers submitted exact copies of course outlines from colleagues who had been previously audited and approved. The College Board condoned the practice, as long as everyone submitting the same syllabus vowed to teach more or less the same course.
“A lot of people figured out the game real quick," said Saroja Ringo, an AP world history teacher at Kennedy High School in Silver Spring. "Once you got one syllabus in your school district that passed, everybody just submitted the same one."
That’s rather telling, I think. I do not think this was never supposed to be viewed as a “game,” and I wonder where the teachers were to take the referred to “vow.”
I have absolutely no problem with two or more AP teachers using the same syllabus; what I would have a problem with is a class being “approved” as AP based upon a syllabus that is not, in reality, used by the teacher. So my question is: What do the local school systems do to ensure that the syllabus approved for the course is the one actually followed by the teacher?
My error: I do not think [the course review] was ever supposed to be viewed as a "game." Fingers and brain not working together! :(
***I have absolutely no problem with two or more AP teachers using the same syllabus; what I would have a problem with is a class being “approved” as AP based upon a syllabus that is not, in reality, used by the teacher. So my question is: What do the local school systems do to ensure that the syllabus approved for the course is the one actually followed by the teacher?***
They don't. It's not a game, it's a scam.
I think it's downright devious that this educational "system" has people teaching AP classes that don't know the material as well as a couple of the kids in their class.
What does that say for the principal, the supervisor of the subject, or Richmond? If they had balls, they'd get some local engineers and scientists into these classrooms to find out what the heck is going on.
The "audit" is a scam, the people doing the audit are jokesters.
Any fool can go to Borders or Amazon and order the AP studyguide.
I'm glad that the money for the new HS was turned down. Look at the philandering that happened at North Point with the taxpayer money.
And what did we get for it?
Money and fancy technology don't turn out brilliant students.
We should have invested that money into some expert teachers to turn the science and tech programs in this county around and start competing with the good schools around D.C.
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