- Additional Authors
- Scanlan, Andrew E.
- Found In
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics, Law & Social Sciences 2019 ENG 9783110610130
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2019 9783110606485
- Description
- 1 online resource (296 p.) : 13 b/w illus. 7 tables.
- Summary
- The first book to tell the story of the Advanced Placement program, the gold standard for academic rigor in American high schoolsThe 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.
- Uniform Title
- Learning in the Fast Lane (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Learning in the Fast Lane (Online)
- Subject
- Advanced placement programs (Education)
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language (note)
- Contents
- Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. Brief History -- PART II. On the Ground in 2018 -- PART III. Challenges and Opportunities -- PART IV. Looking Ahead -- APPENDIX I. Cui Bono? Weighing the Benefits of Advanced Placement and Dual Credit -- APPENDIX II. Additional Data -- INDEX -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
- LCCN
- 2019942780
- 10.1515/9780691185828
- OCLC
- ssj0002441896
- Author
Finn, Chester E.
- Title
Learning in the Fast Lane [electronic resource] : The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement / Chester E. Finn, Andrew E. Scanlan.
- Imprint
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
- Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language
In English.
- Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Scanlan, Andrew E.
- Found In:
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics, Law & Social Sciences 2019 ENG 9783110610130
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2019 9783110606485 ZDB-23-DSW
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1515/9780691185828 doi