NMSI Boosts Minority Student Participation in AP classes

Posted by BJ Goergen, NMSI Chief of Staff:

Pattie Sellers, Editor at Large a FORTUNE magazine, got the NMSI Young Leaders' conference for female college students majoring in math and science off to an exciting start Monday with a roundtable breakfast at the offices of Time Inc. in New York City. Here is the report she immediately posted on her blog "Postcards:"

Here's a great example of the terrific rapport that the AP teachers in programs supported by NMSI grants have with their students:

Jun 17, 2009
By John Winn

The recent article, "Is AP for everybody?" (Telegram & Gazette, June 4) raises a valuable question, but would have benefited from more views explaining that expanding AP is not the problem - it is the solution if the program is expanded appropriately.

Op-Ed in the Dallas Business Journal by NMSI's CEO, Tom Luce.

Friday, June 19, 2009
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