<p>From your link:</p>
<p>“The College Board, which paid for both studies, is expected to announce next week that nearly 2.3 million AP tests for 37 courses were given in 2006, a 200 percent increase since 1995. Some college admissions experts speculate that the college-level exams, written and graded by independent experts, will eventually supplant the SAT and ACT as the country’s most important tests.”</p>
<p>“The larger of the two studies, by University of Texas at Austin researchers Linda Hargrove and Barbara Dodd and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board researcher Donn Godin, also concluded that AP students do better in college than similar students who have taken college courses in high school. This finding confirms the view of several selective college admissions deans that the local college offerings, called dual enrollment courses, are often not as challenging as AP. But it is not likely to be welcomed by the thousands of high school educators who prefer dual enrollment courses to AP and IB.”</p>
<p>I would like to see the data and, particularly, a breakout of dual enrollment course by community colleges and four-year universities. I personally prefer the dual-enrollment approach but only if the college provides appropriate rigor. There are lots of community college courses that are at the high-school level or below.</p>