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Talk:Essay:Proposed Homeschool Constitution (view source)
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, 03:30, October 3, 2008More about the College Board's AP course audit process.
::: Various educational groups are free to review my materials here, but I don't go to the trouble of trying to comply with their own requirements. I don't give into censorship, and see nothing wrong with saying that a course can be used by students to prepare for an AP exam.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:32, 2 October 2008 (EDT)
::: Various educational groups are free to review my materials here, but I don't go to the trouble of trying to comply with their own requirements. I don't give into censorship, and see nothing wrong with saying that a course can be used by students to prepare for an AP exam.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:32, 2 October 2008 (EDT)
::::[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]], I'm assuming that you were unaware of the College Board's requirements regarding AP classes? I do not know whether the AP course audit process involves censorship or not; they say that they do not expect you to use a particular curriculum. Their stated goal for the process is to be sure that AP courses are college-level courses. (For example, they require that the course include instruction in analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of primary sources, such as documentary material, maps, statistical tables, works of art, and pictorial and graphic materials.) Your students can of course use your class to prepare for taking the AP exam (although they will probably need significantly more practice with essays, and they will certainly need to learn how to respond to DBQ's, which I don't think has been covered thus far in your course). However, they cannot list your course as "AP U.S. History" on their high school transcripts, unless the course has gone through the AP course audit process. "AP" is a registered trademark of the College Board. At this point, to avoid any misunderstandings, you should probably explain to your students (and their parents) that because your course has not undergone the AP course audit process, your students are not authorized by the College Board to use the "AP" title to describe your course on their transcripts. That is, even if they take the AP test and do well on it, they cannot call your course "AP U.S. History" on their transcripts. Since you've already stated that your course can be used to prepare for the AP exam, I think it's important that you clarify that it has not undergone the AP course audit process, so that parents understand that you are not providing an official AP course. You don't want one of your students to be accused of deceit if they assume that they may use the AP designation for the course. (For the future, it's worth noting that homeschool classes can undergo the AP course audit process, just like school classes. If you offer this class again, you might want to consider making it an official AP class - these classes carry more weight on a high school transcript than an ordinary high school level US history class, and a decent AP score is more highly regarded than a decent SAT subject test score. Of course, the class would have to be much more rigorous, to be considered AP-level.)--[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 23:30, 2 October 2008 (EDT)
'''Article III: College and Culture.'''<br>
'''Article III: College and Culture.'''<br>