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100 1  Abrams, Annie,|d1984-|eauthor. 
245 10 Shortchanged :|bhow Advanced Placement cheats students /
       |cAnnie Abrams. 
264  1 Baltimore :|bJohns Hopkins University Press,|c2023. 
264  4 |c© 2023 
300    230 pages ;|cc 24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-222) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tMachine generated contents note: Introduction: 
       Collecting Data --|tPart 1: Validity --|t1. Rational 
       Reform --|t2. Common Purposes and Common Standards --|t3. 
       The Blueprint --|tPart 2: Accountability --|t4. Copy Paste
       Classroom --|t5. Artificial Intelligence --|t6. Better 
       Citizens --|tConclusion: Opportunity and Transparency --
       |tEpilogue: Formative Assessments --|tAcknowledgments --
       |tNotes --|tIndex. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520    "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, Annie
       Abrams, education scholar and high school English teacher,
       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 argues 
       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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
610 20 College Entrance Examination Board|xHistory. 
650  0 Advanced placement programs (Education)|xHistory. 
650  0 Democracy and education|zUnited States. 
650  0 Education, Secondary|xAims and objectives|zUnited States.