from https://www.virginiamercury.com/
As AP course enrollment dips, Virginia students eye dual enrollment
BY: NATHANIEL CLINE - APRIL 20, 2023
Callee Love, a student at William & Mary, is likely to finish her time at the university in two years, thanks to her Southwest Virginia high school offering dual enrollment courses, which allow high school students to earn college credits by taking college-level courses through their high school or community college.
Dual enrollment “just really prepared me for the classes that I’d be taking here,” said Love. “I think if I had stuck with the regular high school curriculum, I wouldn’t have been as well prepared for a lot of these classes, with massive papers or writing crazy thesis statements and all of these crazy things. So it’s just been super beneficial.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration and lawmakers have supported expanding dual enrollment and career and technical education opportunities for students in Virginia. However, as more students in Virginia have signed up for dual enrollment courses, fewer students are taking Advanced Placement courses, which have traditionally been
Callee Love, a student at William & Mary, is likely to finish her time at the university in two years, thanks to her Southwest Virginia high school offering dual enrollment courses, which allow high school students to earn college credits by taking college-level courses through their high school or community college.
Dual enrollment “just really prepared me for the classes that I’d be taking here,” said Love. “I think if I had stuck with the regular high school curriculum, I wouldn’t have been as well prepared for a lot of these classes, with massive papers or writing crazy thesis statements and all of these crazy things. So it’s just been super beneficial.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration and lawmakers have supported expanding dual enrollment and career and technical education opportunities for students in Virginia. However, as more students in Virginia have signed up for dual enrollment courses, fewer students are taking Advanced Placement courses, which have traditionally been
