Advanced Placement classes failing students

[Beliavsky]

<p>[Maryland</a> schools have been leader in Advanced Placement, but results are mixed
by Liz Bowie
Baltimore Sun](<a href=“http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bal-ap-test-scores-maryland-schools-have-been-leader-in-advanced-placement-but-results-are-mixed-20130816,0,583144.htmlpage#ixzz2czr8QXjn]Maryland”>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bal-ap-test-scores-maryland-schools-have-been-leader-in-advanced-placement-but-results-are-mixed-20130816,0,583144.htmlpage#ixzz2czr8QXjn)

[The expansion of AP courses to more schools] has not delivered vast numbers of students from low-performing high schools to selective colleges with credits in their pockets, helping to bridge the academic gulf between the nation’s rich and poor. Too often, students who haven’t been prepared in earlier grades flounder in AP classes, or are awarded A’s and B’s in the courses and then fail the AP exams.

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