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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 4h

please please pay attention to this

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I also knew with a high degree of certainty that I’d be accepted based on my ACT and class rank. End of college search. What is it about the current system that is superior?

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allaccess.collegeboard.org

"In fact, the AP standard of achievement in 2025 is more rigorous than the standard of achievement in colleges in 1990 —35 years ago!" allaccess.collegeboard.org/2025-ap-exam...

2025 AP Exams: Scoring, Standards, and Security in a New Digital Era – All Access | College Board

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 4h

like a clownfish and an anemone

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Fall of 1987 I filled out a single, double-sided sheet of paper to apply to the University of Illinois.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 4h

Not even on AP Lit…. It’s wild

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the APUSH "long essay question" doesn't actually require a coherent or thoughtful essay at all

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apcentral.collegeboard.org

look at p 527, for ex, and think about being a 16-year-old accustomed to checklists: apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap...

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 5h

there are writing tasks, but introductions, conclusions, topic sentences, coherence--none of that stuff matters

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you don't need to write an actual essay to get a 5 on any ap exam these days

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 5h

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

why would radlib college students do this??

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"school choice," ties to the Fordham Institute are old, but something like this is new: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

congress.gov

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the CLT didn't always have state partnerships...

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the tests are different now

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 10h

i think it was a really big mistake for some of the more moderate classical ed folks to cozy up to republican politicians

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people--even and maybe especially ones who can afford other things--really believe in this stuff

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 10h

alpha school parent explaining on the everything app that he's excited for his 12 year old to get a 5 on ap calc in the spring

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dancing skelly mcgilvery @kelegraph.bsky.social · 11h

and we shouldn’t automate civic engagement

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

I wonder if these people devote their entire personality to pointing out things that have happened before in human history. Do they yell “this isn’t new” at the tv when the meteorologist says it’s raining.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 11h

they’re also not bound by law or systemwide policy

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 12h

ivies have stopped in some disciplines

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 13h

I wouldn't endorse every sentence, which is to say that it's sometimes been useful for me to think against, but the point is that I've found it really helpful

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 13h

@natalieweiner.bsky.social have been thinking about your ask awhile ago about books on education I've liked, this is one

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please PLEASE stop associating the AP brand with prestige and quality

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Relatable. Have you read Zena Hitz's Lost in Thought?

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I think this is right and that it transcends class

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because we shouldn't automate thinking

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what if we started from the premise that we shouldn't automate teaching

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thinking again about something @mcsardo.bsky.social wrote a few years ago-- educate.apsanet.org/thinking-pol...

Rather than rehearsing the ratification debates and entrenching an image of an apolitical Court, APUSG courses could study the structures of their own state and local governments and identify opportunities for civic engagement, debate Court precedents that affect the lives of members of their particular communities, and read political and scholarly texts that better reflect the diversity of the nation and their own political worlds. Such an approach begins by trusting and empowering teachers, encouraging collaboration, and foregrounding the politics in US government and politics.

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the idea at alpha is not that your kids are going to work for their kids because their kids read shakespeare or whatever, your kids will work for their kids because they were in business school at 14

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classical ed people like accusing "the left" of vacuity, of a mishmash of sentimental ideas about children and promoting education as job training, canon is supposed to be the serious alternative

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it's an important part of the WHAT ARE THEY READING story

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it's all dressed up in progressive sounding rhetoric: "kids naturally want to build and create"

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