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Contraining Innovation: AP Courses

May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

AP courses are bad curricula on steroids. The “rigor” that AP courses were originally designed to provide instead serves to constrain our most gifted teachers, forcing them to march in a lock-step, textbook centric fashion. The AP curriculum stifles innovation, crushes spontaneity, and promotes a singular metric, a score on the AP Examination, as the sole measure of success. AP courses are remnants of a 20th century model of curriculum and teaching that is no longer relevant to the 21st century learner.