> For the past two decades, the College Board has moved aggressively to expand the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement courses and tests — in part by pitching the program to low-income students and the schools that serve them.

It is a matter of equity, they argue.

Nice argument: our product must be purchased by more people, in order to achieve equity. No mention of what the millions of dollars spent on APs could instead be spent on, and how much those expenditures could help students.

In an acknowledgment of the intractable class and race disparities in A.P. test scores, some of the board’s newest courses culminate not in tests, but in assessments that include projects or presentations.

The College Board expects students to pay fees for these project-based assessments, too.

How do they ensure that the student is the one that created the project or presentation? When you take AP tests, they check IDs.