Learning in the Fast Lane (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
296
Utgivningsdatum
2019-09-13
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Originalspråk
English
Illustrationer
13 b/w illus. 7 tables.
Dimensioner
167 x 241 x 28 mm
Vikt
686 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780691178721

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Learning in the Fast Lane

The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement

av Chester E Finn Jr, Andrew E Scanlan
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The first book to tell the story of the Advanced Placement program, the gold standard for academic rigor in American high schools The Advanced Placement program stands as the foremost source of college-level academics for millions of high school students in the United States and beyond. More than 22,000 schools now participate in it, across nearly forty subjects, from Latin and art to calculus and computer science. Yet remarkably little has been known about how this nongovernmental program became one of the greatest success stories in K-12 education-until now. In Learning in the Fast Lane, Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan, two of the country's most respected education analysts, offer a groundbreaking account of one of the most important educational initiatives of our time. Learning in the Fast Lane traces the story of AP from its mid-twentieth-century origins as a niche benefit for privileged students to its emergence as a springboard to college for high schoolers nationwide, including hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged youth. Today, AP not only opens new intellectual horizons for smart teenagers, but also strengthens school ratings, attracts topflight teachers, and draws support from philanthropists, reformers, and policymakers. At the same time, it faces numerous challenges, including rival programs, curriculum wars, charges of elitism, the misgivings of influential universities, and the difficulty of infusing rigor into schools that lack it. In today's polarized climate, can AP maintain its lofty standards and surmount the problems that have sunk so many other bold education ventures? Richly documented and thoroughly accessible, Learning in the Fast Lane is a must-read for anyone with a stake in the American school system.
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"[Both] a history and a full-throated defense of the Advanced Placement program."---Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal "But having long been intrigued with the influence of AP's college-level courses and exams, I was thrilled to see Finn and his co-author, Andrew E. Scanlan, add so much to a subject crucial to the future of high schools."---Jay Mathews, Washington Post

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Chester E. Finn, Jr., is a distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools and Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik (both Princeton). Andrew E. Scanlan is a research and policy associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.