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Re:College Board drops AP comp sci & latin for racial divers... by edgeztv on Monday April 07, 2008 @08:54PM (#157362)
Cutting these exams certainly won't get more minority students involved in these subjects. Seems like a crude hack to improve the College Board's diversity ratings. One is led to believe that they do not care about the students at all from this statement.
Re:College Board drops AP comp sci & latin for racial divers... by shawndrost on Monday April 07, 2008 @09:15PM (#157383)
Other articles indicate that the test was unprofitable: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04...

Edit: "In the 2007 administration, 5,064 students took the exam." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Computer_Science#Grade_distr...