Annie Abrams

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...

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.

Adina M. Yoffie

yeah! and that even if they look similar, that’s a matter of professional consensus rather than emendation by politicians and parents

and it’s especially not because a behemoth testing company, working with the state, required that they follow marching orders

Adina M. Yoffie

“Topics cannot be eliminated from the course because the material is set by the college board. However, the district can add to it.” is this how college works?

Adina M. Yoffie

TBD and, I might argue, a distraction from what the College Board’s pulling here

Eladio Bobadilla

That’s so kind of you, thanks!

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.

“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.

I have an essay about it forthcoming, just sent the draft to the editor

good thing Pondiscio is on the inside he’ll really keep the whole enterprise sensible

“We’re talking about a puppy dog alongside two horses,” said Finn about the CLT, SAT, and ACT. I don’t think that’s what we’re talking about at all! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Florida may become first state to accept a 'classical' alternative to the SAT and ACTwww.nbcnews.com Florida’s embrace of the Classic Learning Test for college admissions follows a high-profile dispute between the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the College Board, which administers the SAT.

Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her)

has been, continues to be

yes

It made me think of this Ellison line about writers: “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.”

Humanities as vocational training I could get behind

Of course! Voting as a job though--does that sound right to you?

I asked him about it on the other site. He said, "Hi Annie. I'm concerned, even if grade inflation on college campuses is ultimately to blame."

What do you make of the last sentence here? 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

“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

I think it's really important to know that you could live without it

Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her)

grim

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.”

bring it back

Melissa Johnson, PhD

Crouton crouton.net

it's not me! but still worth knowing about!!

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.”

I'd like to see stronger ties between schools and universities instead of a universal, top-down curriculum.