Post by Chris_Wendt on Apr 8, 2014 7:11:29 GMT -5
I note that another media-generated list of ersatz educational achievements is in the news, and, as usual, the usual suspects on LI have been rounded up and paraded out before the curious public.
This list is the "top 200" of "America's Most Challenging High Schools".
There are seven (7) LI public high schools in the top 200:
The total national list is only 2,000 high schools. This is out of more that 36,000 public and private high schools in the U.S.
While this may strain credibility somewhat (it does for me), there is one point that resonated with me. The list "is based on the number of college-level tests -- Advanced Placement©, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education -- given during the school year, divided by the number of that class' graduating seniors."
Among the LI high schools that made the list, there seems to be a trend to scuttling prerequisites for taking AP© courses and moving, instead, to "open admissions" for AP© (etc.) courses. Now, when I said "resonated with me", I actually meant in a dissonant way, because I hold fast to the need for prerequisites for acceptance to AP© (etc.) courses, and especially to Wantagh's long-standing policy of requiring those who take AP© courses to also take the AP© exams for those courses.
What do you think?
Sincerely,
Chris Wendt
Link to secondary source article (Newsay dot com)
This list is the "top 200" of "America's Most Challenging High Schools".
There are seven (7) LI public high schools in the top 200:
- Jericho
- Manhasset
- South Side
- Locust Valley
- Cold Spring Harbor
- The Wheatley School
- Syosset
The total national list is only 2,000 high schools. This is out of more that 36,000 public and private high schools in the U.S.
While this may strain credibility somewhat (it does for me), there is one point that resonated with me. The list "is based on the number of college-level tests -- Advanced Placement©, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education -- given during the school year, divided by the number of that class' graduating seniors."
Among the LI high schools that made the list, there seems to be a trend to scuttling prerequisites for taking AP© courses and moving, instead, to "open admissions" for AP© (etc.) courses. Now, when I said "resonated with me", I actually meant in a dissonant way, because I hold fast to the need for prerequisites for acceptance to AP© (etc.) courses, and especially to Wantagh's long-standing policy of requiring those who take AP© courses to also take the AP© exams for those courses.
What do you think?
Sincerely,
Chris Wendt
Link to secondary source article (Newsay dot com)