Education Week: Book Trains Critical Eye on AP Program's Impact

Education Week: Book Trains Critical Eye on AP Program's Impact
As someone who benefited greatly from AP science and calculus courses, I finished college in 3 years with a degree in mathematics. However, I worry about the push to AP over all others. The rankings that focus on AP as a proxy measure for a good high school seem terribly off, especially when they do not consider passing rates on the test. The test is the measure of the rigor of the AP course. If all of the students are failing the test, it is not really serving the AP purpose. The likelihood of the courses labeled AP as being "course-inflated" meaning a higher title than the actual content taught in the class, the less likely the courses will matter. As AP continues to scale up, it will need staffing that can support college-level curriculum taught in a high school context. I'm not sure we have the mass of teachers who can effectively pull off AP instruction, especially those teachers with other, often competing, demands to work with struggling students.