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[quote=Anonymous]It’s not just that IB teaches “writing,” they also teach students to do independent research and synthesize their findings to support an argument. AP teaches writing, critical thinking, and assessment of sources, but on a much smaller scale, with a highly circumscribed application of the skills. The long-term IA projects and Extended Essay in the IB program are much closer to what they’ll be doing in college. And they write an IA paper in every class, including math and science courses, which is pretty rare in high school.

I agree with the PP’s assessment that the curriculum is less linear and more thematic than traditional approaches. But I’d only call it “woke” (whatever that means these days, anyway) in the sense that it attempts to step away from a Eurocentric viewpoint, and encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning.

Which makes sense, since the diploma program is taught in dozens of countries around the world, not all of them in the US or Europe. That’s the entire point of it—to develop a global perspective.[/quote]

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