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Important Announcement about AP Latin Literature
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The College Board views the support of world language and culture programs as one of our highest priorities. As a not-for-profit organization, we are committed to keeping student exam fees reasonable, so we will continue to bear a considerable financial loss annually to provide schools with AP world language offerings. During the next several years, we will significantly increase our investment in support of world language and culture programs in the following ways:
- Providing AP teachers with downloadable embedded assessments for measuring students' knowledge, skills and abilities throughout the AP course, giving teachers much more information about students' strengths and weaknesses before exam day.
- Providing AP teachers with downloadable curriculum modules so that they have college-level materials for delivering key concepts.
- Providing AP teachers with access to student AP Exam score reports online.
- Convening college professors to raise awareness of the quality of AP world language and culture teachers and students and to enhance existing credit/placement policies.
However, as we significantly scale up our support for AP world language and culture teachers, we cannot continue to offer two separate AP Latin courses and exams. Therefore, the course and exam currently entitled AP Latin Literature will be discontinued following the May 2009 exam administration. The AP Latin: Vergil program will be enhanced in the coming years, with any changes communicated to AP Latin teachers far in advance.
Our intensified commitment to AP Latin will ensure that AP Latin: Vergil provides the rigorous, college-level academic experience needed by advanced high school Latin students. It will also ensure that the course is supported by an increased array of curricular resources and professional development opportunities that will benefit AP Latin teachers.
While we are disappointed to be announcing that next year is the final year of the AP Latin Literature program, we are eager to focus our resources on efforts that will provide a much greater degree of support for AP Latin teachers than ever before.
Note: AP French Literature, AP Computer Science AB, and AP Italian will also be discontinued after the May 2009 exam administration.
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