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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't there an AP Research seminar course? Is it similar to IBDP's Theory of Knowledge (TOK) class?[/quote]

I live in the hinterlands.  I haven't heard of high schools here offering AP Seminar.  Or some of the other new courses (AP Pre-Calc).

My younger child is taking AP classes but there's no unified perspective or method across AP classes.  I have a hard time understanding what added value AP Seminar would have compared to TOK.[/quote]

What unified perspective do you want across APs? They are supposed to be introductory college classes not Unified Theory of Everything. As if IB classes have that feature beyond some empty drivel from marketing materials.

AP Seminar can be taken as English 10, so kids are doing more challenging work early. You may not understand the added value of AP Seminar but many colleges like MIT do and give college credits. Unlike TOK that doesn’t get any.[/quote]

You're awfully touchy about the value of AP's expansion of their product line.  They are clearly trying to push as many courses as possible so that en masse the set more or less becomes a program of study.

DMV goes so hard on this stuff.  Until DCUM, I had never even heard of kids self-studying APs when they weren't taking the class at all.

My kid did not take TOK because at our school it's taught before school and he was not getting the diploma.  But the kids who took it really found it enriching.  And that is the true purpose of advanced high school education.  Intellectual development.  Not trying to pack in credits so you can go to college for fewer total years. Which itself can be an anti-intellectual decision, even if cost-effective.[/quote]

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