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One of my heroes ...was Harlan “Harpo” Hanson, a big man with a dry wit who was once both the director of AP for the
College Board and a force behind the first big grant for IB in the United States. He had four children. He gave each teen the facts about the two programs and let them decide. Two
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courses, and Hanson, then a graduate student was given the task of implementing the new program. With two colleagues, Hanson, started the Office of
Advanced Standing at Harvard University, and as Director of Harvard's Office of Advanced Standing in 1955, Hanson worked to get all academic departments
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to standardize their award-granting requirements and to align their policies with the standards outlined by the
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for IB and securing university recognition from Ivy League schools such as
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chose IB. Two chose AP. In each case, Hanson said, they made the right decision.
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