Annie Abrams

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NYC public school English teacher; NYU American lit PhD; author of Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students (JHUP 2023); currently thinking about the high school canon

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i am begging academics to say that courses for college credit look different from each other

“The board took another vote Monday night in favor of a revised version of the course they believe would be more balanced.” great, a nationwide course more or less accords with their vision www.cbsnews.com/amp/baltimor...

Harford County school board reverses course, allows AP African American class to be taughtwww.cbsnews.com The Harford County school board reversed its controversial decision and will now make an Advanced Placement African American Studies elective available to high school students.

“Topics cannot be eliminated from the course because the material is set by the College Board. However, the district can add to it.” Is that how college works? www.cbsnews.com/amp/baltimor...

i am begging academics to say that courses for college credit look different from each other

“I just feel that we are called upon to do a big job, not because someone is going to give us a star on the report card, but because this is America and our task is to explore it, create it by describing it.” Ralph Ellison, American Scholar, 1955

Again, what if, instead of any of this, we had accessible liberal arts at scale? www.educationnext.org/grade-inflat...

Grade Inflation Sends AP Test Scores Soaringwww.educationnext.org College Board appears to be bowing to pressure to reduce failure rates

Book bans in red states are bad. We should also be talking about who’s really advocating for reading in school…anywhere.

NYC's DOE is giving up on books. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Schools That Are No Longer Teaching Kids to Read Bookswww.theatlantic.com “It didn’t even feel like learning.”

In middle and high schools too, teachers are drilling "skills" instead. It's happening now.

NYC's DOE is giving up on books. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Schools That Are No Longer Teaching Kids to Read Bookswww.theatlantic.com “It didn’t even feel like learning.”

NYC's DOE is giving up on books. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Schools That Are No Longer Teaching Kids to Read Bookswww.theatlantic.com “It didn’t even feel like learning.”

"Policymakers and educators will have to confront the failure of moving away from subject matter." lareviewofbooks.org/article/do-p...

Do Public Schools Bring Us Together or Tear Us Apart? | Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.org Is school choice compatible with a national lesson plan? Johann N. Neem considers a radical new proposal from Ashley Rogers Berner.

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New academia reality tv show in which hundreds of highly trained candidates get winnowed down to one champion, who is awarded the opportunity to teach intro classes outside their speciality with no research support!

I'd argue that AP US Gov is already compatible with their vision. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

Oklahoma social studies education to be reformed with help of conservative influencersthehill.com Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Tuesday a committee with conservative activists tasked with rewriting the social studies standards in his state. “The new approach t…

What if, instead of any of this, we had accessible liberal arts at scale? www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

AP leaks prompt score cancellations, digitization pushwww.insidehighered.com An international cheating ring led to an uptick in AP score cancellations this year, expediting plans to digitize the exams. Will that make them more secure?

if you think a $2B standardized testing company privatizing public K16 stands for progressive, liberal, or even small-c conservative values, you are being played

“Reading worked best, the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus insisted, when it was conducted with pen in hand and notebook at the ready; the goal was not simply to commune with the past but to translate its idioms and ideas into one’s own.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Livelier Than the Living | Catherine Nicholsonwww.nybooks.com In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.

I think about this a lot.

If you must construct the edifice you plan to knock down in your lit survey course, because none of your students read a single “great work” cover to cover in high school, then how powerful can the gesture of knocking it down really be?

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