The UW-Madison School of Education will co-sponsor a new program to expand the number of high school students who can earn college credit through Advanced Placement courses offered by Wisconsin high schools.
The Wisconsin Advanced Placement Distance Learning Consortium offers students in low-income rural or uban districts AP instruction through the schools' existing teleconferencing facilities. An online instruction pilot project will begin in the fall of 2003.
This year, the consortium will prepare 50 licensed Wisconsin teachers to teach a total of 50 AP courses in 12 disciplines. Consortium staff hope to enroll 500 to 700 students for the 2003-'04 school year.
\[The consortium] will build upon Wisconsin's tradition of educational innovation and excellence, and promises to serve as a model for other states interested in increasing academic achievement among today's youth,"" said Wendy E. Way, the acting director of the Center on Education and Work at UW-Madison.
