Why read Shortchanged?

Book cover of Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students

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"Shortchanged is a brilliant book."-The Washington Post Author and high school English teacher Annie Abrams reveals how the College Board's emphasis on standardized testing has led the AP program astray.

Every year, millions of students take Advanced Placement (AP) exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Shortchanged as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Pepper Stetler

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I loved this book because it exposed how modern education has become so closely associated with taking standardized tests successfully that we have forgotten what the larger purpose of learning actually is. I see this so often in my college students, and Abrams explained to me how our education system shapes a very narrow definition of what it means to be smart.

It is a deep dive into a topic that has rarely been explored, and Abrams is an insider who has seen how the AP system warps what students think school is for.

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