Out of all 16 southern states Alabama Used to rank 14 in AP course offerings. In 2006 ACCESS was started and is now in place in all high school in the state. What the program does is offer advanced course such as calculus, physics, trigonometry to schools that would other wise go without. The program utilizes web sites, video conferencing, e-mail and other online sources to help educate.
The program seems to work much like the online courses at a university, but would also offer teacher work shops. The state is even giving schools funding to implement the program.
The ACCESS program would be great as a new teacher as it would mean that advances students are not held back by the economic situation of the schools the attend. One problem that might arise is that I wouldn't be sure how to monitor progress, or how to make sure there on the ACCESS site and not google or youtube. But all in all a little screen watching is worth it.
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