AP for all

Utah’s high school students continue to excel when it comes to the Advanced Placement program. Large numbers continue to opt for rigorous AP classes in high school and more of them pass the exams afterward than do their peers nationally. Yet not all is well. Too few minority students take advantage of this program, which gives students who successfully pass AP exams college credit. The preceding paragraph was the lead of a Salt Lake Tribune editorial published in August 2000. What was true abou...