02679cam a22003137i 4500 20996081 OSt 20260114122810.0 190601s2019 nju 000 0 eng 2019942780 9780691178721 (hardback) 20996081 DLC eng rda DLC pcc MLCM 2022/43032 (L) Finn, Jr., Chester E., 1944- author. Learning in the fast lane : the past, present, and future of advanced placement / Chester E. Finn, Jr., Andrew E. Scanlan. 1st. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019. xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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"-- Provided by publisher. Scanlan, Andrew E., 1989- author. 7 cbc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 265645 265644 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC 40404 40404 GEN 2026-01-14 LB1025 .F56 2019 20260763 2026-01-14 2026-01-14 BK