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What is the Honors Program?

"Honors courses" present content at a higher level, allowing students to develop more complex skills, concepts, and products.  Students in honors classes:

  • explore curricular concepts and principles in greater depth and complexity
  • investigate the interelationships of concepts and principles within and among  content areas
  • refine their problem-solving skills, methods of inquiry, decision-making and creative thinking 
  • exhibit a a high degree of creativity by completing comprehensive research reports, designing experimental studies, composing original poems or stories, and solving novel and complex problems 
Students taking honors courses receive a .5 weighted grading in determining their GPA (Grade Point Average).

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410-222-5430
Anne Arundel County Public Schools
2644 Riva Road
Annapolis, MD  21401

Last updated September, 2002
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