Mold-Breaking Schools Can Reach Every Student

There you go, pushing one of my buttons. I hope I live long enough to squash for good this notion that AP is only "fact-based" and leaves teachers with no choice but to "shovel out information."

Much of the most creative and exciting teaching I have seen has been in AP classes, particularly U.S. history. I had the pleasure of visiting the classroom of Eric Rothschild at Scarsdale High School in New York. His class was full of simulations of great events, debates, samples of 19th-century music, movement and passion.

I think an AP class for gifted students with a teacher such as Rothschild would be a fine idea, as long as you let that teacher also have one or two other sections of AP for us dummies.

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