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.
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