Hoover Institution Chester E. Finn Jr. Mar. 16, 2017 Dual enrollment is on a roll. Enabling high school students to take college courses for credit while still enrolled in high school now comes in many forms and is altering the high school experience of millions of young Americans. In 2016, some 2.6 million students who were enrolled in 22,000 high schools took some 4.7 million Advanced Placement (AP) exams in 40-plus subjects. Nearly three million of those exams yielded scores of 3 or higher (out of 5), which historically has represented the equivalent of having completed college level work. This is a stunning increase from 769,000 high schoolers who sat for 1.3 million AP exams in 2000. But AP is no longer the only game in town. More than 900 American secondary schools offer the prestigious International Baccalaureate diploma program, and there are other ways to establish credit toward a college degree via tests given by Cambridge International Examinations and the College Level Examination Program (though the latter is meant to gauge credit-worthiness for learning obtained outside of school). More... College Classes In Name Only? | Hoover Institution
Isn't it like the worst kept secret in higher ed that general education requirements mostly just duplicate high school classes?
Yeah, but now you don't have Becky to cheat off of. And the college courses are supposed to be more rigorous, no?
