Annie Abrams

Oct 23, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Annie Abrams

Ellison’s curriculums rightly prompted students to grapple with their country and its culture. October 23, 2024 at 6:15 a.m. EDTAnnie Abrams is a high school English teacher and the author of “Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students.” This piece is adapted from an essay in the fall 2024 issue of Liberties, a journal of culture and politics.

Sep 30, 2024 | libertiesjournal.com | Annie Abrams |Jake Harrison

In 1955, The American Scholar published a discussion among influential writers and editors titled “What’s Wrong with the American Novel.” In the symposium Ralph Ellison remarked that “I just feel that we are called upon to do a big job, not because someone is going to give us a star on the report card, but because this is America and our task is to explore it, create it by describing it.” His conviction came from his success in communicating a creative vision for self-determination in his...

Sep 30, 2024 | libertiesjournal.com | Annie Abrams |Jake Harrison

In 1955, The American Scholar published a discussion among influential writers and editors titled “What’s Wrong with the American Novel.” In the symposium Ralph Ellison remarked that “I just feel that we are called upon to do a big job, not because someone is going to give us a star on the report card, but because this is America and our task is to explore it, create it by describing it.” His conviction came from his success in communicating a creative vision for self-determination in his...

Apr 27, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Annie Abrams

In the 1950s, mired in the thick of the Cold War, a small group of educators - all White men at elite institutions - came up with an idea. What if promising high school students could take advanced classes, engage with the liberal arts and be lifted into top colleges even if they came from nonelite backgrounds?

Apr 27, 2023 | historynewsnetwork.org | Annie Abrams |David M. Perry

Shortchanged How Advanced Placement Cheats Students By Annie Abrams Johns Hopkins University Press. 230 pp. $24.95 In the 1950s, mired in the thick of the Cold War, a small group of educators — all White men at elite institutions — came up with an idea. What if promising high school students could take advanced classes, engage with the liberal arts and be lifted into top colleges even if they came from nonelite backgrounds?