Learning in the Fast Lane 英文原版 快速學習 Chester Finn Andrew Scanlan

基本信息

By (author) Jr. Chester E. Finn , By (author) Andrew E. Scanlan

Format Hardback | 296 pages

Dimensions 156 x 235 x 33.02mm | 612.35g

Publication date 17 Sep 2019

Publisher Princeton University Press

Publication City/Country New Jersey, United States

Language English

Illustrations note 13 b/w illus. 7 tables.

ISBN10 0691178720

ISBN13 9780691178721

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

內容簡介

The first book to tell the story of the Advanced Placement program, the gold standard for academic rigor in American high schools

The Advanced Placement program stands as the foremost source of college-level academics for millions of high school students in the United States and beyond. More than 22,000 schools now participate in it, across nearly forty subjects, from Latin and art to calculus and computer science. Yet remarkably little has been known about how this nongovernmental program became one of the greatest success stories in K-12 education-until now. In Learning in the Fast Lane, Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan, two of the country's most respected education analysts, offer a groundbreaking account of one of the most important educational initiatives of our time.

Learning in the Fast Lane traces the story of AP from its mid-twentieth-century origins as a niche benefit for privileged students to its emergence as a springboard to college for high schoolers nationwide, including hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged youth. Today, AP not only opens new intellectual horizons for smart teenagers, but also strengthens school ratings, attracts topflight teachers, and draws support from philanthropists, reformers, and policymakers. At the same time, it faces numerous challenges, including rival programs, curriculum wars, charges of elitism, the misgivings of influential universities, and the difficulty of infusing rigor into schools that lack it. In today's polarized climate, can AP maintain its lofty standards and surmount the problems that have sunk so many other bold education ventures?

Richly documented and thoroughly accessible, Learning in the Fast Lane is a must-read for anyone with a stake in the American school system.

第一本書講述了高級學位課程的故事，這是美國高中學術嚴謹的金標準

。高級學位課程是美國及其他地區數百萬高中生大學水平研究的首要來源。現在，有超過22,000所學校參加了該課程，涉及近40個學科，從拉丁語和藝術到微積分和計算機科學。迄今為止，人們對這一非政府計劃如何成為K-12教育中*大的成功案例之一知之甚少。在《快車道的學習》中，切斯特·芬恩（Chester Finn）和安德魯·斯坎蘭（Andrew Scanlan），美國最受尊敬的兩位教育分析家，對當今時代最重要的教育舉措之一進行了開創性描述。

快速通道中的學習追溯了AP的歷史，它源於20世紀中葉，是特權學生的利基優勢，而後成為全國高中生，包括成千上萬處處境不利青年的跳板。如今，AP不僅為聰明的青少年開闢了新的知識視野，而且還提高了學校的等級，吸引了教職老師，並獲得了慈善家，改革家和政策制定者的支持。同時，它面臨着眾多挑戰，包括競爭對手計劃，課程爭奪戰，精英主義指控，有影響力的大學的憂慮，以及向缺乏這種能力的學校注入嚴格性的困難。在當今兩極分化的氣候中，AP是否可以保持其崇高的標準並克服許多其他大膽的教育事業沉沒的問題？

《快速通道的學習》（Learning in Fast Lane）具有豐富的文獻資料，並且完全可以訪問，對於那些對美國學校系統有興趣的人來説，這是一本的書。

作者簡介

Chester E. Finn, Jr., is a distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools and Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik (both Princeton). Andrew E. Scanlan is a research and policy associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

切斯特·E·芬恩（Chester E. Finn，Jr.）是托馬斯·B·福特漢姆研究所（Thomas B. Fordham Institute）的傑出高級研究員和校長，也是斯坦福大學胡佛研究所（Hoover Institution）的高級研究員。他是許多著作的作者或合著者，包括《考試學校：美國最有選擇性的公立中學內部》和《麻煩製造者：自人造衞星以來的學校改革個人史》（普林斯頓）。Andrew E. Scanlan是Thomas B. Fordham研究所的研究和政策助理。