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Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students

Name: Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9781421446295
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Contributors:

Annie Abrams

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Education

Book Subcategory:

Schools, Aims & Objectives, Evaluation & Assessment

Book Topic:

Levels

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Release Date:

2023-04-25

ISBN 13:

9781421446295

Weight:

1.02 lbs

Size:

9.30 x 6.24 x 0.85 inches

Pages:

240

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"Shortchanged is a brilliant book."--The Washington Post Author and high school English teacher Annie Abrams reveals 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, education scholar Annie Abrams 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 advocates 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.

About the Author

Annie Abrams teaches high school English. She holds a doctorate in American literary history from New York University.

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