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Advanced Placement Report to the Nation
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Introduction
As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) in U.S. schools, it is the right time to issue the first Advanced Placement Report to the Nation. This report uses a combination of state, national, and AP Program data in new ways to provide each U.S. state with a context for celebrating its successes, understanding its unique challenges, and setting meaningful and data-driven goals to connect more students to college success.
Part I of the Report comprises three powerful themes that appear once we situate each state's AP participation and performance data within the context of its own racial/ ethnic demographics and population size. Because one of the chief purposes of Part I is to provide state departments of education with new data to gauge success and identify current challenges in providing equitable educational opportunities (and because current, reliable racial/ethnic demographic data for independent schools is not available for all states), the data in Part I represent public schools only.
Part II of the Report uses data from all schools participating in AP worldwide, public and nonpublic, to identify schools currently leading the world in AP participation and performance, and to provide overall participation and performance information for each of the AP subject areas.
While this report focuses on new ways of examining AP participation and performance in the states and the nation, basic, general facts and information are contained in Appendix A: Fast Facts about AP. In addition to the data presented in this report, the Advanced Placement Press Room contains additional data and research to supplement the tables and charts contained in the Report.
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