AASA :: College Board: Reconciling AP Exams with Common Core

AASA - The School Superintendents Association:
The College Board is responding to the brewing changes of today's Common Core era by revising the Advanced Placement program so that the focus is on fewer concepts and more depth.

In an AASA conference session, Advanced Placement in the Common Core Era: Changes and New Developments in the AP Program, on Saturday morning, Trevor Packer, senior vice president of the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program, told superintendents that his organization would integrate Common Core standards in AP course standards and AP exams administered each May.
One measure cited by Packer is this: The College Board is removing extraneous details from the AP course requirements and making AP classes less about simple memorization and more about critical thinking and synthesizing information.

(Keren Yi, a junior at the Los Angeles Center for Enhanced Studies, is an intern on AASA’s Conference Daily Online).
VIDEO: College Board’s Trevor Packer on Common Core and AP Curriculum [2:01]

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AASA :: College Board: Reconciling AP Exams with Common Core

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