Shortchanged - How Advanced Placement Cheats Students

"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"--

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Annie Abrams, Annie (Teacher Abrams
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2023
• EAN: 9781421446295
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4629-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Secondary Schools, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Primary & middle schools, Educational strategies and policy, Education: examinations and assessment, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary