Why shouldn credit be granted toward the associate degree itself for articulated high school courses?
The law requires that the associate degree include at least 60 semester or 90 quarter units of college coursework. An articulated high school course, while reviewed as comparable by college faculty, still is not fully equivalent to a college course in several ways. College faculty have minimum qualifications beyond that required for high school teachers. The level of preparation of students in college courses in generally higher. Degree applicable college courses have required levels of reading, writing, and computational skills above that required for high school courses. University-transferable college course have even higher standards. College students go through rigorous assessment and, in many cases, must meet specific prerequisistes, to assure that they have these essential skills. These standards and practices are in place to assure students that the college courses they take meet the rigorous requirements of four-year universities (in the case of transfer courses) and of employ
