The New York City - based College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the Advanced Placement brand, said more than two - thirds of the 134,000 ostensible AP - course syllabuses submitted for review by
teachers from 14,383
secondary schools
around the
world were immediately approved.
In 35 U.S. states and at sites
around the
world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore
Teachers» Union, Jamaica
Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of
Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of
Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.
Katharine Vincent, programme leader for the
secondary PGCE at the Institute for Education, a university which works in partnership with over 500 schools and colleges across London and the south east of England, told Schools Week: «
Around the
world, the contribution of universities to professional formation of
teachers is associated with high quality.
To ensure that
secondary students are capable of accessing varied information about the
world around them, Washington should also — either through testing frameworks or
teacher standards — include literacy skills and using text as a means to build content knowledge in history / social studies, science, technical subjects and the arts.