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The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The Blue & Gold

The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The Blue & Gold

College Board’s Crappy Environmental Curriculum

College Board’s Crappy Environmental Curriculum

Sirianna Blanck, Editor-in-chief October 27, 2021

AP Environmental Science is a natural science class created by the College Board and taught here at Chamblee. I took the class under Mrs. Begum, but it’s being taught this year by Mrs. Pascale. This...

Scores of Students Frustrated After AP Tests Lost

Scores of Students Frustrated After AP Tests Lost

Millie Gotsch, Staff Writer October 13, 2021

Students at Chamblee have been stressed by recent developments relating to AP exams and scores. Students expect their scores at some point in June, but as of now, the College Board has failed to return...

Everything Wrong with College Board’s “Pandemic-Proof” AP Exam Structure

Everything Wrong with College Board’s “Pandemic-Proof” AP Exam Structure

Catherine Cossaboom and Iris Tsouris March 30, 2020

It’s no doubt that COVID-19 has burned a warpath through the US educational system, bringing down everything in its trajectory—from prom to senior events to now IB exams, as decreed by the International...

Reactions to COVID-19: GaDOE, College Board to Update Testing Procedures

Reactions to COVID-19: GaDOE, College Board to Update Testing Procedures

Oliver Hurst, Staff writer March 20, 2020

The following story is part of a series of articles about the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. Other articles in the series can be found here. As the coronavirus pandemic escalates, schooling around the...

College Board CEO David Coleman gives a talk on College Board's recently released SAT preparation service.

A New Perspective on the College Board

Catherine Cossaboom, Editor February 5, 2020

The other day, I read an opinion piece published by the CEO of the College Board in The Atlantic magazine, and it really got me thinking about all the aspects of the school system that aren’t serving...

Chamblee Charter High, the home of 32 AP courses.

Changes to AP Program Elicit Mixed Reactions from Students and Teachers

Henry Diep, Staff Writer November 8, 2019

Advanced Placement (AP) courses—they are a way to earn college credit while still in high school and also offer a slight boost to one’s weighted GPA. Every year, students are given the option to either...

$AT: Why the High Cost?

$AT: Why the High Cost?

May 4, 2015

*This article was featured in the April print edition of The Blue and Gold. $646. That is how much I have given to a certain non-profit in order to sit at a desk and fill in bubbles for hours at...

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