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Winer, Robert D. – College Board Review, 1980
It is suggested that many high schools do not fully utilize the intellectual talents of their students as an educational resource. By serving as teaching interns or assistants under extremely close supervision, it is thought high school students can contribute significantly to the quality of the school's curriculum. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement Programs, Advanced Students, High School Students
Freeman, Laurie – School Planning and Management, 1996
Six rural Pennsylvania school districts and three colleges have installed standardized distance-learning classrooms and are now collaborating seamlessly as information providers and receivers. Misericordia College offers an advanced-placement college-level credit program and professional development seminars for teachers in the participating…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, College School Cooperation, Distance Education, High Schools

Attewell, Paul – Sociology of Education, 2001
Explores how the focus on class rank has affected students from star public high schools, creating a disadvantage when students try to enter elite colleges. Explains a new approach, "winner-take-all," being utilized in high schools in which schools focus on the top students. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, Class Rank, College Admission
Fowler-Finn, Thomas – American School Board Journal, 2002
Describes how the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Community Schools improved black students' academic achievement by developing a core curriculum and creating a student-centered learning environment focusing on individualized learning. (PKP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, Black Students, Core Curriculum

Burson, George – History Teacher, 1989
Discusses the limitations of the Bradley Commission on History in Schools report. Critiques the History Advanced Placement Examination, and outlines suggestions for its improvement. Presents the Aspen High School, Colorado, solution to the inadequacy of a one-year U.S. history curriculum and the lack of a global view. Examines the role of history…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Watkins, Beverly T. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
The Advanced Placement Program has become a "program of academic opportunity" for students in high schools that enroll large numbers of minority groups. These schools are raising the expectations of minority students and helping them achieve higher goals, and they are bringing them into professional and graduate schools. (MLW)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, American Indians, Asian Americans

Mabry, Theo – Community College Review, 1988
Offers a review of ERIC documents and journal articles concerned with high school/community college cooperation, covering dual/joint enrollment, shared faculty and/or facilities, advanced placement, program articulation, student preparation, and interinstitutional communication. (DMM)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education), College Bound Students, College School Cooperation

Tomlinson, Carol Ann – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 1994
This article examines available literature on a variety of options for accelerated learning in middle school. Different forms addressed include concurrent enrollment, guided independent study, combined enrollment, out-of-school acceleration, self-paced instruction, grade skipping, and differentiated or advanced class enrollment. A list of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Adolescents, Advanced Courses

DiLorenzo, Robert – History Teacher, 1999
Discusses teaching Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. history at an urban, minority high school. Addresses student recruitment; using a summer assignment; notetaking and the Document-Based Quiz, various teaching strategies; preparing and reviewing for the AP examination; using special events; and the importance of professional development and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Course Content, History Instruction

Andrea, Alfred J. – History Teacher, 1999
Discusses the proposed Advanced Placement (AP) world history curriculum. Argues against beginning the course at 1000 CE, stating that it should begin at the Axial Age (approximately 800 to 200 BCE) or earlier. Offers suggestions for constructing the proposed "Foundations" course introduction around six one-week units. (CMK)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Course Content, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Evaluation
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2004
This article discusses the continuing growth of student participation in the Advanced Placement program and how schools increasingly recast the program as being within reach of any student willing to do the work, regardless of academic standing. The Advanced Placement program was established in 1955 to give high-achieving students access to…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Academic Achievement
Milewski, Glenn B.; Sawtell, Ellen A. – College Board, 2006
This study investigated relationships between scores on the verbal, mathematics, and writing sections of the PSAT/NMSQT and the following indicators of academic achievement in high school: years of study, participation in specific math and English language arts courses, high school grade point average, academic intensity, and participation and…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Academic Achievement
Chesapeake Public Schools, VA. Office of Program Evaluation. – 1996
The use of four periods in the school day, as opposed to six, with each period 90 minutes in length is referred to as 4 X 4 block scheduling. In Virginia, as in many states, there is increasing interest in this kind of scheduling to deliver education that meets the instructional needs of students. In 1995-96, Western Branch High School (WBHS) of…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Block Scheduling, High School Students, High Schools
Branch, Robert C.; And Others – 1992
The hypothesis that the planning activities of classroom teachers correlate with the practices of instructional design professionals is explored within the context of this study. Classroom teachers participated in a survey which requested information regarding their planning routines. The 35-item two part questionnaire that was used as the data…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Correlation, Instructional Design, Intellectual Disciplines
Saginaw Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation Services. – 1992
Findings of a study that examined the situation in which minority students in an advanced arts and sciences high school program received low or failing grades are presented in this paper. Students who had been good students in their home schools received low or failing grades in the mathematics and science program at the Center for the Arts and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Assessment