Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than
typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.
Not exact matches
Smelling his fear, everyone in the
class acted like the
typical high school students that knew more than everyone else in the world (let me tell you when I was 18, I was the smartest I will ever be in my entire lifetime.
These EDITABLE activities are designed for a
typical high school Biology
class and can be used for
class work, cooperative learning groups, homework, quizzes, or interactive notebooks.
In a
typical high school civics
class, students learn about local and federal government and media literacy, as well as citizenship and participation.
Compare the L1 (native language) and L2 (second language) Spanish learners in a
typical U.S.
high school Spanish
class.
In a
typical middle or
high school, teachers will teach many different
classes; typically five.
If a
typical class runs 50 minutes (in middle and
high school), that's barely enough time to cover...
In contrast to elementary classrooms,
typical subject - area courses at the middle and
high school levels experienced little change in
class size.
For middle
school students, seeing
high school students take on leadership roles brings the context of the
class out of the
typical model where it is an adult «leading» kids.
The Gettysburg Address isn't
typical reading in a
high school English
class, where teachers have long favored literature such as Moby Dick, Nineteen Eighty - Four and Shakespeare.
in a writing style that is far more
typical of a liberal arts professor or a
high school teacher than that of a world -
class mathematician.
At 86, Yale sent fewer graduates into teaching jobs than did Harvard Law
School with 101, but when considered in light of Yale's
typical class size of 200 versus Harvard's of 550, Yale earned a per capita score of.43, much
higher than second - place Harvard's.18.
About 94 percent of Broward
high school students attend
classes on a
typical day, according to a memo from the
school district's chief academic officer.