From Harford County Public Schools: Harford County Public Schools students continue to achieve at a high rate of proficiency on the Maryland School Assessments (MSA) taken by third through eighth graders in reading and mathematics. Close to 90 percent of elementary and middle school students are performing at a proficient level in reading, and middle […]
Another Stab: Understanding How Harford County Students Fared on Advanced Placement Tests
We try to anticipate your questions and concerns and build them into our interviews so they are fully explained within our stories. But sometimes your minds work in ways ours don’t, and good questions go unasked and unanswered. That’s we offer Another Stab – a chance to get your follow-up questions answered right from the […]
17% of Harford County Public School Seniors Passed At Least One Advanced Placement Exam in 2010
Maryland has ranked number one for the third year in a row in a measure of high school graduates passing Advanced Placement exams, with 26.4 % of the class of 2010 passing at least one AP exam while in high school. In Harford County, the average was 17%, according to data released by Harford County […]
Harford Schools Advanced Placement Data Released; School Board to Consider Pilot Program to Pay AP Exam Fees
On a short list of priority items in next year’s proposed budget, Harford Schools Superintendent Robert M. Tomback has requested a pilot program to pay exam fees for students who take Advanced Placement Exams. The idea is to increase participation in the AP Program offered at all county high schools. The AP Program, devised by […]
Average SAT Scores Vary Widely Among Some Harford County High Schools
Average SAT scores for 2010 varied widely among the ten public high schools in Harford County, with some schools easily besting the state and national averages and others lagging behind, according to results just released by Harford County Public Schools. Testing skills that are learned in high school, the SAT is taken mainly by college-bound […]
Harford Students Realize Gains on State Tests; Graduation Rate Continues to Rise; Elementary Reading Proficiency Soars
From Harford County Public Schools: Harford County Public Schools achieved a graduation rate of 88.38 percent for the class of 2010, an increase of 1.65 percent compared to 2009, and outpaced the state average of 86.6 percent, according to data released today, Wednesday, October 6, by the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). The 2010 […]
Harford Schools Results Mixed on College-Level Exams
Advanced Placement Exams are developed by The College Board and offered to high school students nationwide in subjects ranging from English Literature to Calculus to Art History. Results from the AP Exams let students know if they are ready for college-level work and provide the rest of us with one of the few available measurements […]
Harford County Public Schools Fail to Report Comparable Data on AP Exams
Maryland Public Schools were just ranked #1 by the College Board’s 5th Annual AP Report to the Nation and this time the top ranking is for real. Unlike the misleading #1 ranking that Maryland got from Quality Counts, the College Board’s report is based on objective outcomes, i.e. the percent of the Class of 2008 […]