In 2019, an anonymous high school student posted on Reddit that they had worked out a “nice formula” to game the Advanced Placement English language test, one of the 38 subject areas in which the College Board, a private company, sells high school students a chance to take exams for college credit. By “very deeply analyzing the organizational patterns of high scoring previously released essays,” the student found, one could avoid the kind of independent analysis the A.P. language test is meant t
<p>According to Annie Abrams's new book, the Advanced Placement program has subordinated high school students' learning to standardized testing and enabled public universities to gut humanities departments by accepting high school work for college credit. Her dive into education history explains how that happened. </p>