Learning in the fast lane : the past, present, and future of advanced placement /
"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 pr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.