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题名/责任者:

Learning in the fast lane : the past, present, and future of advanced placement / Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Andrew E. Scanlan.

出版发行项:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.

ISBN:

9780691216911

ISBN:

0691216916

载体形态项:

xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

其他载体形态:

ebook version : 9780691185828

个人责任者:

Finn, Chester E., Jr., 1944- author.

附加个人名称:

Scanlan, Andrew E., author.

论题主题:

Advanced placement programs (Education)

论题主题:

School grade placement.

论题主题:

Educational change.

论题主题:

Educational acceleration-United States.

体裁索引词:

Instructional and educational works

中图法分类号:

G639.712.1

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Part I. Brief History -- Early Days -- Poor Kids Advance, Too -- Growth Industry -- Part II. On The Ground In 2018 -- The Lone Star Challenge -- Growing AP In Gotham -- In Suburbia -- Advancing Charter Schools -- Part III. Challenges And Opportunities -- Competition Stiffens -- Does Platinum Bend? Standards Under Stress -- Elite Dropouts -- Advanced Placement Fights The Culture Wars -- Part IV. Looking Ahead -- Making A Difference -- Appendix I. Cui Bono? Weighing The Benefits Of Advanced Placement And Dual Credit -- Appendix II. Additional Data

摘要附注:

"More than three million high-school students take five million Advanced Placement exams each May, yet remarkably little is known about how this sixty-year-old, privately-run program, has become one of U.S. education's greatest successes. From its mid-century origin as a tiny option for privileged kids from posh schools, AP has also emerged as a booster rocket into college for hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged youngsters. It challenges smart kids, affects school ratings, affords rewarding classroom challenges to great teachers, tunes up entire schools, and draws vast support from philanthropists, education reformers and policymakers. AP stands as America's foremost source of college-level academics for high school pupils. Praised for its rigor and integrity, more than 22,000 schools now offer some-or many-of its thirty-eight subjects, from Latin to calculus, art to computer science. But challenges abound today, as AP faces stiffening competition (especially dual credit), curriculum wars, charges of elitism, misgivings by elite schools and universities, and the arduous work of infusing rigor into schools that lack it and academic success into young people unaccustomed to it. In today's polarized climate, can Advanced Placement maintain its lofty standards and overcome the hostility, politics and despair that have sunk so many other bold education ventures? Advanced Placement: The Unsung Success Story of American Education is a unique account-richly documented and thoroughly readable-of the AP program in all its strengths and travails, written by two of America's most respected education analysts"--

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