She had my contact info…and a lengthy pm about the site and why folks stay on it after their own kids graduate. A very positive pm.
Odd article…considering the info shared.
But I think she may be either a young, new reporter, or perhaps an intern.
Not an intern. Out of Mizzu journalism school, and a good 10 years in journalism.
She’s not the go to education reporter for WaPo fwiw
The article was an example of the editor desiring a certain attention-grabing headline and then asking a reporter to write to the headline. “So what” if the research did not support the headline? You write the easy story you are asked to write no matter the facts. Disappointing. :-<
Article seemed spot-on to me.
I can’t disagree with guidedbywire. The article seemed vanilla, to me. It’s some post-article comments that got more pointed.
It strikes me as good PR for CC. Did like Creasy’s comments about chance threads.
@tutumom2001 “Because of CC, we now know that (1) Ivy is most likely out because she made a B”
That is not true. Most Ivy League students have had a few B’s in high school.
“(2) AP World History is enough AP for 10th grader who will still end up with 8-10 of them thank you very much”
True. She can get enough APs for the best schools even without taking any in Sophomore year.
Taking English, Math and Science APs, and doing well on them, is the key for most students. Those core APs matter more than the total number. A student who has only 5 APs but scored a 4 or 5 on AP Eng. Lang, AP Eng. Lit., AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, and an AP Foreign Language would tell many schools more than a student with 10 APs in more random subjects.That is especially true if they did not score as well on those subjects.