The state Education Department says Arkansas’s push for high school students to take Advanced Placement courses is continuing to produce a rise in the number of students taking the more rigorous courses.
The better news is that there was a bigger percentage increase in passing scores on the tests as compared with the increase nationally, but it’s also true Arkansas has farther to go, with a lower overall pass rate.
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Here’s a one-glance chart on the numbers. (Link corrected.) The news release follows.