Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students

Autor/in	Abrams, Annie
Titel	Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students
Quelle	(2023), (240 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-4214-4629-5
Schlagwörter	Advanced Placement Programs; Standardized Tests; High School Students; College Curriculum; Educational History; Liberal Arts; Democracy; Educational Finance; Elementary Secondary Education; Financial Support; College Readiness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Demokratie; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01