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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Rigorous college-prep classes skyrocketing in Washington state

Joe Blythe, a junior at Nathan Hale High School, takes notes on an overhead projector during an exercise in a history class including both AP and non-AP students. Such blended classes are designed to promote rigor, but the approach has left some students at the school dissatisfied.