Advanced Placement
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Advanced Placement
The program of College Board's Advanced Placement program is taking on increased prominence in the national effort to ratchet up the rigor of American high school education, mentioned in President Bush's State of the Union message and embraced by individual states. According to the second annual report from the College Board, which administers the Advanced Placement program, about 60 percent of American high schools now offer Advanced Placement courses, and the average high school offers a choice of eight such courses. Gaston Caperton, the president of the board, a New York-based nonprofit organization said that the number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.