""When I started at the College Board, we only gave the SAT over the weekend," he said. "And that may sound fine, but the kid who self-selects to take an exam over the weekend is a certain sort of kid." AP courses were no different, he said, "focused on a fairly narrow set of the top 20% to 30% of the high school.""
""it's a dangerous moment" for education. "The biggest fact of the American high school is that our kids are more and more disconnected than ever before from the whole enterprise of pursuing their future." Coleman described a downward spiral of worsening engagement with instruction in general. "In elementary school, they'll take what we give them. In middle school, they become suspicious. And in high school, many of them are done. And they're just not taking it. They're not interested.""
The College Board administers the Advanced Placement program and the SAT. Privileged students disproportionately access AP courses and SAT testing opportunities, leaving others behind. Weekend SAT scheduling favored students who self-select, and AP offerings concentrated on the top 20–30 percent of each high school. Internal research finds AP students more likely to come from higher-income families, attend suburban schools, and have stronger academic preparation. Student engagement declines across grades: elementary students accept instruction, middle-schoolers grow suspicious, and many high-schoolers disengage entirely. The rise of artificial intelligence threatens to deepen a 'why bother' mindset and further erode college-bound motivation.
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