To IB or not to IB ... That is the question

marite
Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:41:31 +0000

j07:

I hope you feel better! Good post, thanks for sharing your experience.

There’s a lot to love in the IB program. By the way, you need only 3 IB subjects instead of 4 APs to receive Advanced Standing at Harvard or Yale and Princeton, I believe, so there is no short-changing.



Of my graduating class of 468, there are only 24 people completing IB Diploma.



That is the issue that various posters have raised. If a district introduces IB as a means of raising performance throughout the whole high school, is it a good return on investment if only 24 students our of 468 complete the IB diploma? What happened to the other 444? Did the presence of the IB program lift their performance as well or had no effect or divert resources away from them?

When you feel better, perhaps you could try to address my queries. I’d really appreciate it. Good luck, too, on the college applications.