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It is very essential that AP courses are readily available for students of all backgrounds, ethnicities and economical classes. Teachers and administrators are able to implicate these courses in their establishments by registering online at the College Board website, once the school is accepted a course is to be chosen and the school must participate in the AP Course Audit process. The courses are extremely beneficial for the students.

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It is imperative that every student be taught with the same integrity as the next. This idea can sometimes be challenged by implicit biases that every teacher holds. "Implicit bias refers to unconscious attitudes, reactions, stereotypes, and categories that affect behavior and understanding. In higher education, implicit bias often refers to unconscious racial or socioeconomic bias towards students." (Boysen GA &Vogel DL, 2009) It is very common that teachers can be discriminatory in their instruction, showing student who they connect or identify with more attention while teaching. This can be detrimental as one ethnicity or identity of students will be far more included within the teaching of the curriculum resulting in one student being more proficient in the course than the other.

A final resource is the new software presented by The College Board called “AP Classroom”. This new feature provides instructional resources for both students and teachers daily. These resources are available on the AP student section of the College Board website. There are many different options available on the website including personal progress checks, in which students can measure how far they’ve come from the beginning of the year and also a progress dashboard in which teachers can see what areas their students are struggling in and need more work. The website also offers an AP question bank where sample AP exam questions are released in order to better prepare students.

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