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1: What is the future of the AP program? Live updates about #APExams from @AP_Trevor at the grande finale of #Mosaic2021 / THREAD
2: The #Mosaic2021 conference has been a summer-long project of free professional development hosted by a team of #APLang and #APLit teachers from around the country, including @susangbarber, @BrandonAbdon, and many others!
3: Demographic data indicates that there has never been better access for non-white students to the AP program at their schools.
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1: New data from @CollegeBoard indicates a significant decline in the total number of #APExams administered in 2021. Will the pandemic kill off the AP program? A thread by our founder @HookedonJohnics.
2: Standardized tests and state assessments are not only being canceled, they are being CANCELED. Are these tests engines of inequity? What purpose do they really serve? Wouldn’t we better off without any standardized tests at all?
3: The AP (Advanced Placement) program is more than a standardized test: it’s a year-long program supported by teachers and professors who write the exams and grade them. Millions of students have skipped college requirements and earned credits through high scores on AP Exams.
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Are the 2021 #APExams equitable and fair? Here’s what thousands of AP teachers and students say. /THREAD
finance.yahoo.com/news/poll-show…
1. In order to provide AP students as many options as possible in 2021, @CollegeBoard devised a complex system for this year’s AP Exams. For the essential details: marcolearning.com/what-we-know-a…
2. Questions about equity arose immediately after College Board announced the format for this year’s exams on February 4. Our founder John Moscatiello analyzed that announcement here:
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@CollegeBoard @AP_Trevor
I have multiple examples of inconsistencies & tech problems with your online AP tests, the inequity of conditions & lack of tech support some students have at home! #APExams
Ex 1: A friend & colleague, actually an AP art teacher, told me his daughter was not able to submit her physics AP test, that the button didn’t work. She even left plenty of time at the end, with no luck.
Ex 2: What solutions do you have for one of my students who’s WiFi was so spotty at home, yes we gave her hotspot, that she plans to have her mother drive her up to a school parking lot to access their WiFi to take her AP exam while sitting in the car?
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My thread of #apexams2020 as The Office

#APExams #APocalypseExams

Day 1 issues with submissions
Day 2 false promises by @CollegeBoard that it will all work out for #APExams #apexams2020 #APocalypseExams
Day 3: college board blames students browser for issues they admitted on Day 1 they knew would happen but did nothing to prevent

#APExams #apexams2020 #APocalypseExams
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