On the second hour of the October 24 Amy Oliver Show, the National Math and Science Initiative’s Gregg Fleisher talks about his group’s remarkable success helping students pass AP tests, a result that’s beginning to show up in the Colorado schools where they work. He discusses the attention given to student cash incentives in NMSI’s program, but focuses more on the critical training and support given to teachers.
[...] Gregg Fleisher told my Education Policy Center friend Ben DeGrow on Wednesday’s radio show that the AP test-passing increase from those three schools alone represented 19 percent of the [...]