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[quote=Anonymous]AAP in our center is much more advanced in verbal as well as math.  I have one in the regular school (not the same school as the center) and she has had adv. math.  It's not the same... not by any stretch of the imagination.

The vocab/spelling that my AAP 3rd grader has is much "harder"/more advanced than what my non-AAP 5th grader is doing.  I know that my non-AAP 5th grader is in the highest reading group, so it's not a question of that.  It's just that the standards and expectations are much higher at the AAP center school.  As 3rd graders, they have given at least 4 presentations already this year.  I think my 5th grader has done one -- maybe.

The AAP center is very transparent about what the expectations are for a project (they give rubrics all the time) and they are very transparent about the test scores and homework scores and what rating that is (i.e. a 1, 2, 3, or 4).  Grading seems very quantitative.  Grading at the non-AAP school is very opaque -- and seems much more qualitative.... no one ever knows what is expected to get a 4 on a project (well, there aren't many projects, but even if I think back to the one project in 3rd grade or 4th grade -- there weren't any rubrics or expressly provided "requirements" to get a 2, 3, or 4 on it).  We never get notice of how a child scored on ecart at the non0AAP school.  We always get that from the AAP school.

The AAP school will give the kids access to a pre-ecart test and the post ecart test showing what they got right and wrong.  The non-AAP school never has the kids do a pretest (at least not at home) and we cannot see their results/questions they got wrong after they take the test.

The AAP kid has homework every night -- more than the non-AAP kid.  More at-home support is expected from the AAP teachers.  The non-AAP teachers expect almost nothing of parents re: home support.

To say there is no difference is just not so.  (BTW, my non-AAP kid is not at a Title 1 school.  There are only 10-ish% FARMS.  It's not a matter of kids being poor or not having home support.  It's just that IMO, the school/teachers don't expect excellence.  The AAP school definitely expects kids to work more, and there is a difference in outcomes).[/quote]

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