Shortchanged : how Advanced Placement cheats students / Annie Abrams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abrams, Annie, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College Entrance Examination Board--History.

College Entrance Examination Board.

Advanced placement programs (Education)--History.

Advanced placement programs (Education).

Democracy and education--United States.

Democracy and education.

Education, Secondary--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Secondary.

Education, Secondary--Aims and objectives.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

230 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Every year millions of students take Advanced Placement exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and save on their tuition bill. But are they getting a real college education? This book shows how the AP program originally aimed to replicate the liberal arts experience for bright students, but over time became a testing behemoth and marker of student status"-- Provided by publisher.

"How the College Board's emphasis on standardized testing has led the AP program astray.Every year, millions of students take Advanced Placement (AP) exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and save on their tuition bill. But are they getting a real college education? The College Board says that AP classes and exams make the AP program more accessible and represent a step forward for educational justice. But the program's commitment to standardized testing no longer reflects its original promise of delivering meaningful college-level curriculum to high school students. In Shortchanged, Annie Abrams, education scholar and high school English teacher, uncovers the political and pedagogical traditions that led to the program's development in the 1950s. In revealing the founders' intentions of aligning liberal arts education across high schools and colleges in ways they believed would protect democracy, Abrams questions the collateral damage caused by moving away from this vision. The AP program is the College Board's greatest source of revenue, yet its financial success belies the founding principles it has abandoned. Instead of arguing for a wholesale restoration of the program, Shortchanged considers the nation's contemporary needs. Abrams argues for broader access to the liberal arts through robust public funding of secondary and higher education and a dismantling of the standardized testing regime. Shortchanged illuminates a better way to offer a quality liberal arts education to high school students while preparing them for college"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I VALIDITY

ch. 1 Rational Reform

ch. 2 Common Standards and Common Purposes

ch. 3 The Blueprint

pt. II ACCOUNTABILITY

ch. 4 Copy Paste Classroom

ch. 5 Artificial Intelligence

ch. 6 Better Citizens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781421446295

1421446294

OCLC:

1337523514