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Podcast
9.18.2019
Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education

The Education Gadfly Show: All about AP

  On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli talks with Checker Finn and Andrew Scanlan about their new book on the past, present, and future of Advanced Placement.

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Book
9.17.2019
Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education

Learning in the Fast Lane: The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Andrew Scanlan

Termed by the Washington Post’s Jay Mathews “the most comprehensive book on Advanced Placement, the most powerful educational tool in the country,” this book traces AP’s history from its mid-twentieth-century origins as a niche benefit for privileged students to its contemporary role as a vital springboard to college for high school students nationwide, including hundreds of thousands of poor and minority youngsters. It's a must-read for anyone with a stake in American K–12 education.

Podcast
7.17.2019
Advanced Education

The Education Gadfly Show: One small step for man, one giant leap for our schools?

On this week’s podcast, Fordham’s own Checker Finn joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss, during the week of Apollo 11’s fiftieth anniversary, how the moon landing related to American education. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how restorative justice affects racial disproportionality in school discipline.