College Board to launch Pre-AP classes in 2018

[ucbalumnus]

@warbrain

It’s a bit frustrating when people say things like, AP Human Geography is a useless class because it doesn’t offer college credit. Maybe this is true at a place like Exeter or Harker. But at most schools, the alternative to a class like AP Human Geography is a social studies course based almost completely on memorization, with no analysis and no writing apart from fill in the blanks. So in that sense, AP Human Geography is great.

Both of the following can be true:

a. AP human geography is a useful course to offer to strong 9th grade students compared to the weaker social studies courses commonly offered.
b. AP human geography is not really worthy of the AP label, if the AP label is intended to mean that the course covers college level material.