{"id":8265,"date":"2021-10-15T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:19:02","slug":"bnc-art-worrell-on-the-importance-of-access-to-advanced-placement-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/bnc-art-worrell-on-the-importance-of-access-to-advanced-placement-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Black News Channel: Art Worrell on the Importance of Access to AP Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studies show that students who take Advanced Placement (AP) classes are more likely to graduate from college, yet most students of color have little to no access to AP courses in their schools. This can have a huge impact on their post-secondary education journey.<\/p>\n<p>At Uncommon Schools, over 95 percent of our students take AP courses. Art Worrell, director of 5-12th grade history at Uncommon Schools, appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bnc.tv\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black News Channel<\/a> to discuss this important issue. Watch the segment below.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/632952246?h=67286cfaa2&#038;color=ffdd00\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies show that students who take Advanced Placement (AP) classes are more likely to graduate from college, yet most students of color have little to no access to AP courses in their schools. This can have a huge impact on their post-secondary education journey. At Uncommon Schools, over 95 percent of our students take AP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/bnc-art-worrell-on-the-importance-of-access-to-advanced-placement-courses\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black News Channel: Art Worrell on the Importance of Access to AP Courses - Uncommon Schools<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Black News Channel, Uncommon Director of History Art Worrell disucsses the impact access to AP coureses can have for students of color.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/bnc-art-worrell-on-the-importance-of-access-to-advanced-placement-courses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ht_HT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black News Channel: Art Worrell on the Importance of Access to AP Courses - 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