Education Week: Eligible Students Missing Out on AP

Education Week: Eligible Students Missing Out on AP:

In all but four states, more public school students in the class of 2011 took and passed at least one Advanced Placement exam—18.1 percent on average—up from 16.9 percent for graduates the year before, according to a report released Wednesday.

Yet the 8th annual "AP Report to the Nation" shows that many students who had the academic potential to succeed in AP didn’t take exams, either by choice or because they attended a school that did not offer the subjects.