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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.
Annie Abram was born in London in 1869 and died in Sussex in 1930.
She contributed significantly to the twentieth-century
historiography of late medieval England, researching the social,
cultural and religious mores of the English laity and clergy. First
published in 1909, this title explores the impact of economic
changes on society during the fifteenth century. This is a period
of important developments both socially and economically, which
witnessed the rise of the middle class through industrialisation,
agrarian change, and the growing economic and commercial character
of towns. The chapters discuss these areas, as well as the
industrial position of women and children, the economic position of
the Church and the development of a national character. This is a
fascinating classic work, which will be of great value to students
researching the socio-economic history of late medieval England.
Annie Abram was born in London in 1869 and died in Sussex in 1930.
As an historian, she contributed significantly to the
twentieth-century historiography of late medieval England,
researching the social, cultural and religious mores of the English
laity and clergy. This title, first published in 1919,
comprehensively explores the fabrics of late medieval society using
evidence drawn from historical and literary works, official
documents and illustrated manuscripts. Largely concentrating on the
years between the start of the Black Death in 1348 and the end of
the fifteenth century, a period in which we see important
developments in the character and organisation of medieval England,
chapters discuss the make-up of social order, life in a medieval
town, the position of women in society, and the Church's
relationship with the laity. A complementary title to Social Life
in England in the Fifteenth Century (Routledge Revivals, 2013),
this fascinating work will be of great value to history students
requiring a detailed overview of the framework of late medieval
English society and culture.
Annie Abram was born in London in 1869 and died in Sussex in 1930.
As an historian, she contributed significantly to the
twentieth-century historiography of late medieval England,
researching the social, cultural and religious mores of the English
laity and clergy. This title, first published in 1919,
comprehensively explores the fabrics of late medieval society using
evidence drawn from historical and literary works, official
documents and illustrated manuscripts. Largely concentrating on the
years between the start of the Black Death in 1348 and the end of
the fifteenth century, a period in which we see important
developments in the character and organisation of medieval England,
chapters discuss the make-up of social order, life in a medieval
town, the position of women in society, and the Church's
relationship with the laity. A complementary title to Social Life
in England in the Fifteenth Century (Routledge Revivals, 2013),
this fascinating work will be of great value to history students
requiring a detailed overview of the framework of late medieval
English society and culture.
Annie Abram was born in London in 1869 and died in Sussex in 1930.
She contributed significantly to the twentieth-century
historiography of late medieval England, researching the social,
cultural and religious mores of the English laity and clergy. First
published in 1909, this title explores the impact of economic
changes on society during the fifteenth century. This was a period
of important developments both socially and economically, which
witnessed the rise of the middle class through industrialisation,
agrarian change, and the growing economic and commercial character
of towns. The chapters discuss these areas, as well as the
industrial position of women and children, the economic position of
the Church and the development of a national character. This is a
fascinating classic work, which will be of great value to students
researching the socio-economic history of late medieval England.
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