Yale Professor Faults AP Program in Inner Cities.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 May 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale Professor Faults AP Program in Inner Cities (C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10052007 New Haven, Conn. -- William Lichten, emeritus professor of physics at Yale University, will speak at a National Science Foundation-sponsored conference on Advanced High School Coursework in Science and Mathematics at Harvard University on May 11.

In his talk, Lichten says that the increase in College Board Advanced Placement (AP) courses in inner city, predominantly minority schools has failed. Citing non-selective Philadelphia public schools as a case study, Lichten noted that the majority of such schools could not claim a single person who passed even one of the last round of AP examinations in 2006. He...