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I was grumpy that IB credits only counted towards electives (which I had my own ideas for) at UChicago in the 00's, but now I respect that position. At the same time, I had some excellent IB teachers in HS & meh Core instructors in college and suspect I actually got more out of IB than the Core.

In theory, "advanced placement" course in high schools are meant to give students a head start on college-level work, but in practice these courses serve as *replacements* for that college-level work, and very poor ones at that.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... Kind of interesting essay with a bad title, but IDK how you talk about problems in historical education today without even saying the words "advanced placement."

Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all.