Post Tagged with: "AP"

Freshman Year for Free? The Future of Online Education

Freshman Year for Free? The Future of Online Education

Best of the Web, Education News February 23, 2015 at 8:30 am

Several months ago, we wrote about edX’s High School Initiative, a groundbreaking expansion into online APs, which will unveil comprehensive MOOCs for eight different AP courses (as well as other college-preparatory material) over the next year. Last month, in partnership with the Modern States Education Alliance, edX announced yet another significantRead More

Rice Reconsiders Policy on Advanced Placement (AP) Credits

Rice Reconsiders Policy on Advanced Placement (AP) Credits

College, Standardized Tests December 9, 2014 at 2:01 pm

Rice University’s Faculty Senate is reconsidering what type of credit, if any, to give to matriculating students who have scored highly on Advanced Placement Tests. In particular, the faculty is concerned that students entering Rice with more than 20 credit hours (or essentially 2 semesters) are spending significantly less timeRead More

EdX High School Initiative is Groundbreaking Expansion into Online APs

EdX High School Initiative is Groundbreaking Expansion into Online APs

On Monday, the massive open online course (MOOC) platform edX opened registration for AP Biology: Part 1, the first course on the site which explicitly focuses on preparing students for an AP exam. The course has been made available in partnership with Rice University’s Center for Digital Learning and ScholarshipRead More

Houston ISD's Carnegie Vanguard picture sourced from HISD: http://www.houstonisd.org/Page/75669

HISD’s Carnegie, Bellaire, Lamar high schools place well in US News rankings

Eleven schools in the Houston Independent School District were ranked in U.S. News and World Reports prestigious list of Best High Schools in the United States.  The rankings include more than 4,700 of the top high schools in the country. Carnegie Vanguard, the district’s flagship high school for gifted andRead More