Partly ai suppose because many people see College Board AS “the left,” not imagining there’s more. CB’s tepid defense of Af Am Hist., and the general breadth of the suggested reading list for Ap Lit, are enough for many
scarlet letter reading quiz: give students a sparknotes passage and ask what it misses—a significant detail, some tension, a connection to another text only a member of our class might see
meanwhile, the CLT is quite serious about realizing their vision, and they're not wrong to emphasize books and to think about shared purpose across institutions
it's difficult to explain succinctly how enmeshed in many public schools the College Board is these days, and part of the issue is that the company exploits real vulnerabilities
At pd today we were told one of our district goals was "future ready" which meant things like expanding college in the high school and amount of students in AP.
Let me tell you hearing that after proctoring the PSAT really put a nice bow on my day....
I promise we don't agree with AP frameworks in many (most?) respects. I teach primarily first year students and a big part of my job is basically deprogramming AP students like I've just pulled them out a cult.
