AP Tests: About 16 percent of North Carolina’s high school students passed AP, or Advanced Placement, tests last year. Some schools in the state see the rigorous college preparatory classes as the best challenge for accelerated students. Others find AP courses limiting and choose not to offer them. Host Rusty Jacobs leads a discussion about AP classes and their role in schools and college admissions. Guests include: Ted Fiske, education writer and author of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges” (Sourcebooks, Incorporated/2004). (32:00)
Architect: Host Rusty Jacobs talks with Frank Harmon, architect and professor at NC State University, about his philosophy of design. Harmon has said, “I like to imagine that inside every cathedral is a shed, and inside every shed is a cathedral.” His architectural firm specializes in design that is rooted in the particulars of a place. In his work, he has explored island houses, farmhouses, and the southern ‘dog trot’ house. (17:30)