![]() ![]() And we ultimately decided to empower the committee, professors that are content experts that work on AP African American studies, to make further revisions to the framework to restore any of the topics that they would want to restore that we were criticized for cutting.” We were not especially effective at doing that. “We were caught off guard, we attempted to protest, to explain what we were doing. “So what did that look like to the public? Exactly what it looked like to the public, that the College Board had made changes to appease one governor’s agenda, and one state’s agenda at the expense of 49 other states’ priorities,” Packer said. Specifically, Packer detailed the tumultuous rollout of the framework. The College Board made national news this year when edits were made to the AP African American Studies pilot course framework. The AP African American Studies pilot, AP Psychology, and Florida Equity and access to AP courses-which offer students the possibility of earning cost-saving college credits in high school-were a major theme throughout. Workshops and sessions covered developments in AP from transitions to digital testing, to two high profile new courses in precalculus and African American studies. Thousands of teachers and school and district leaders gathered last week for the College Board’s Advanced Placement annual conference, its first since 2019. ISBN 978-2-1.In a presentation to educators on July 20, the head of the Advanced Placement program for the College Board, Trevor Packer, spoke of major decisions the College Board made since the start of the pandemic that generated controversy, including edits to its African American studies course, and provided some insight into where programs were headed. Learning in the Fast Lane: The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement. ^ a b "Criticism misses this century's biggest education success story".^ a b "Rethinking Advanced Placement".^ "Trevor Packer, College Entrance Examination Board: Profile and Biography - Bloomberg Markets".Vice President, AP and Instruction – College Board". ^ a b c "Meet the man who made Advanced Placement the most influential - and controversial - tool in American education".Nat Malkus, a researcher at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, praised Packer's expansion of the AP program as the "rarest kind of success in public education". Scanlan also found that during the period of rapid growth under Packer, the average AP score "barely budged: 2.84 in 2017, down slightly from 2.88 in 2007," and attributes this to "Packer's own hand on the AP tiller since 2003". Packer responded to these criticisms by emphasizing that average test scores had not dropped significantly when access to the courses was expanded. Packer's rapid expansion of the program generated criticism that AP was financially benefiting from underprepared and underprivileged students taking exams. The redesign of the AP US History course generated significant controversy in 2014. The number of multiple-choice questions on the exams was decreased, while various subjects' exam weights shifted to written responses, analysis of sources and data, projects, and portfolios. Packer launched sweeping changes to AP courses in the 2012-13 academic year, following recommendations from the National Research Council and the National Academy of Science. When Lee Jones left the AP program in 2003, Packer took over as the head of the program. In 1999, Packer was given the title of Assistant Director of Operations. Packer began his career with the College Board as a temporary employee for the AP office in New York City while earning a PhD in English. At age 19, he served as a missionary in Milwaukee, before earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at Brigham Young University in English. He was raised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Packer was born in Provo, Utah, the first of nine children to Shirlee Packer and Rand Packer. Trevor Packer is the current head of the Advanced Placement (AP) Program and the Senior Vice President of Advanced Placement and Instruction at the College Board. Senior Vice President of Advanced Placement and Instruction at the College Board ![]()
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