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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my tenth year of being an English professor. I teach at a liberal arts college ranked in the 75-100 range on US News and yes, I have seen a difference in my students’ abilities since I began. Their writing skills have declined and there is much more of a need for what I call cookbook (or recipe) style academics — many of them seem need (and ask for) an exact, specific set of directions on assignments, much like a recipe.

I do think that AP classes contribute to this. It is a very formulaic-style of learning that does not replicate the skills that one needs to succeed in a college class. For example, this is the type of question that one would see on say, the AP Government exam: “Describe the Tenth Amendment.” This type of question, that requires nothing but memorization and recall on the part of the student, really does nothing to facilitate long-term learning or critical thinking skills. [/quote]

This is exactly why many private schools no longer offer APs.[/quote]

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