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College Board Issues Report on Status of Advanced Placement in the United States

By National High School Center on 2/11/2011 9:27 PM

The College Board has recently released the 7^th Annual AP Report to the Nation, which details states’ efforts over the last year to increase Advanced Placement (AP) coursetaking, particularly among traditionally underserved student populations.

Report highlights include:

About 850,000 high school seniors successfully completed at least one AP course before graduating in 2010. Out of that number, about 508,000, or 16.9% of the class of 2010, scored a

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