1. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream College Readiness And AP Courses

2. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Currently, 40 percent of students entering four- year colleges and universities and 63 percent of students at two-year institutions require some remedial education. This is a significant concern because a student is less likely to obtain a bachelor’s degree if he or she has taken one or more remedial courses.

3. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream

4. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream What can we do about the gap?

5. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Advanced Placement

6. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Choose AP Are you ready for a unique learning experience that will help you succeed in college? Through AP's college-level courses and exams, you can earn college credit and advanced placement, stand out in the admission process, and learn from some of the most skilled, dedicated, and inspiring teachers in the world. A Different Kind of Class From the moment you enter an AP classroom, you'll notice the difference—in the teacher's approach to the subject, in the attitude of your classmates, in the way you start to think. In AP classrooms, the focus is not on memorizing facts and figures. Instead you'll engage in intense discussions, solve problems collaboratively, and learn to write clearly and persuasively.

7. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Can a student get college credit or advanced placement for a grade of 3 on the AP English Language Exam? Yes. However, students should check the credit/placement policy at the schools they are considering attending because policies vary from one institution to another; sometimes they vary within an institution from department to department.

8. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Which students should be encouraged to register for AP courses?

9. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Any student willing and ready to do the work should be considered for an AP course.

10. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream As we work to fill in the gaps, we must first see the reality!

12. Benchmarks Kentucky requires all juniors to take the ACT. This report displays the percentage of grade 11 tested students meeting the benchmark established by ACT. The ACT benchmarks for each tested subject are English (18), Mathematics (22), Reading (21) and Science (24).

13. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream School Year KDE School Code ACT Code District/ School Number of Students Tested ACT Benchmark Percentage EnglishMathe matics ReadingScience 2008 2009 2010 125100 181690 CCHS 215 216 206 34.4% 33.8% 40.8% 7.0% 13.4% 16.0% 24.2% 27.3% 30.1% 7.4% 7.9% 11.2% 2008 2009 2010 125 187092 District 217 220 207 34.1% 33.2% 40.6% 6.9% 13.2% 15.9% 24.0% 26.8% 30.0% 7.4% 7.7% 11.1% 2008 2009 2010 999 State 42,922 43,495 44,390 45.5% 48.8% 19.5% 20.8% 21.6% 33.2% 30.4% 35.0% 14.8% 16.5% 15.4%

14. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Do AP students really need help with college readiness skills?

15. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Do AP students really need help with college readiness skills? YES!

16. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream #1 - Not all AP students are truly advanced.

17. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream #1 - Not all AP students are truly advanced. #2 - Not all AP students are good test takers.

18. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream #1 - Not all AP students are truly advanced #2 - Not all AP students are good test takers #3 - Not all AP students know the test tricks

19. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Advanced Kentucky 1.Open Enrollment 2.Prep sessions 3.Tutoring sessions

20. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Now what?

21. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream #1 – Tell the students what is expected on the ACT.

22. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Break down the reading section

23. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream 4 reading passages 40 questions 35 minutes

24. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream 1. Give a complete reading practice test 2. Work with individual passages and ten questions in a ten minute time frame 3. Decrease the time till you get down to 8 minutes 4. Give a complete reading practice test again

25. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Let’s try!

26. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Practice Practice Practice

27. GEAR UP Alliance 2011 Institute for a College-Going Culture: Drive the dream Work Cited http://www.education.ky.gov/KDE/ http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/Controller.jpf http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/reading/read_01.html