Learning in the Fast Lane : The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement / Chester E. Finn, Andrew E. Scanlan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finn, Chester E., Author.

Scanlan, Andrew E., Author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Advanced placement programs (Education).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first book to tell the story of the Advanced Placement program, the gold standard for academic rigor in American high schoolsThe Advanced Placement program stands as the foremost source of college-level academics for millions of high school students in the United States and beyond. More than 22,000 schools now participate in it, across nearly forty subjects, from Latin and art to calculus and computer science. Yet remarkably little has been known about how this nongovernmental program became one of the greatest success stories in K-12 education-until now. In Learning in the Fast Lane, Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan, two of the country's most respected education analysts, offer a groundbreaking account of one of the most important educational initiatives of our time.Learning in the Fast Lane traces the story of AP from its mid-twentieth-century origins as a niche benefit for privileged students to its emergence as a springboard to college for high schoolers nationwide, including hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged youth. Today, AP not only opens new intellectual horizons for smart teenagers, but also strengthens school ratings, attracts topflight teachers, and draws support from philanthropists, reformers, and policymakers. At the same time, it faces numerous challenges, including rival programs, curriculum wars, charges of elitism, the misgivings of influential universities, and the difficulty of infusing rigor into schools that lack it. In today's polarized climate, can AP maintain its lofty standards and surmount the problems that have sunk so many other bold education ventures?Richly documented and thoroughly accessible, Learning in the Fast Lane is a must-read for anyone with a stake in the American school system.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

PART I. Brief History

PART II. On the Ground in 2018

PART III. Challenges and Opportunities

PART IV. Looking Ahead

APPENDIX I. Cui Bono? Weighing the Benefits of Advanced Placement and Dual Credit

APPENDIX II. Additional Data

INDEX

A NOTE ON THE TYPE

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691185828

0691185824

OCLC:

1109390024