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The 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. In his message, President Bush highlighted the need to prepare young Americans to be more competitive globally, proposed to expand incentives to quadruple the number of students taking A.P. science and math exams, to 1.5 million, within 2012.