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.
Kevin M. Kruse
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.
