Opportunities for students to earn college credit while still in high school are expanding.
A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics found 82 percent of public high schools enrolled students in dual-credit courses, and 69 percent reported enrollments in International Baccalaureate or Advanced Placement courses during the 2010-11 academic year.
This translates into 2 million enrollments in dual-credit courses and 3.5 million in AP or IB courses.
In 2002-03, NCES reported 71 percent of high schools offered programs in which students earned credit at both the high school and college levels for the same course, known as "dual credit." Another 67 percent of public high schools had AP courses, while 2 percent enrolled students in IB classes nearly a decade ago.
