Tag: AP

2025-2026, Campus Life

Stress and Burnout; how does it affect McCaskey’s students?

By: Eleni King Martin As the sun comes out, and the flowers peek through the ground, the school year has gradually drawn to its inevitable end. With this, exam season arrives. At the end of every school year, students are challenged with Keystone, Advanced Placement (AP), and International Baccalaureate (IB) testing. These tests are a cumulative examination of what students have learned and worked hard … Continue reading Stress and Burnout; how does it affect McCaskey’s students?

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Opinion

Where IB Succeeds and AP Fails: Critical Thinking

 AP (advanced placement) and IB (international baccalaureate) classes are both higher level course options offered at McCaskey and are often equivalated. The comparison of the two curricula though, is arbitrary and inaccurate. Although both courses have the same general structure of a college-level class with a nationally or internationally administered test at the end of the year, the differences extend far beyond geography. AP classes … Continue reading Where IB Succeeds and AP Fails: Critical Thinking

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Campus Life, Opinion

Advanced Courses Lack Racial Diversity

There are various advanced courses offered at McCaskey High School, such as honors, AP, and IB classes. As an AP and honors student, my classmates and I have noticed an obvious lack of diversity in some of the advanced courses.  This is seemingly more so an issue in J.P McCaskey rather than East- this being something I discovered talking with fellow classmates and teachers. I … Continue reading Advanced Courses Lack Racial Diversity

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