OTD In Space - February 26: 1st Launch of Saturn 1B Rocket

On 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB ...
Newsday

College-level exam results among Long Island high schoolers show improvement

Achievement rates are up across Long Island on college-level Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams taken in the region's high schools, and New York State as a whole has moved up in ...
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Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools

This chapter examines a number of ways in which the Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) programs and their assessment results are used. Some of these uses are appropriate and ...
SpaceNews

Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Critical to Successful SM-3 Block IB Flight Test Standard Missile-22 Intercept

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to an intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second generation Aegis BMD ...
The Washington Post

Participation In AP, IB Up 17 Percent in D.C. Schools

D.C. public high schools sharply increased the number of college-level courses offered last year after research continued to show that such challenging programs gave students an important key to ...
Aviation Week

NASA Stennis Preps For SLS Block IB Ground Tests

Credit: Danny Nowlin/NASA NASA’s Stennis Space Center has installed four large thrust diffusers in preparation for so-called Green Run testing of the Block IB Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) upgrade to ...
The Brown Daily Herald

U. to evaluate AP and IB weight

With the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement courses more than doubling over the last 10 years, some of Brown’s peer institutions have stopped accepting AP and International ...