I don't have any basis to evaluate this because I went to a high school with 30 kids and AP was not even in my vocabulary. I am curious about the contrast between these statements:

>AP courses are not, in fact, remotely equivalent to the college-level courses they are said to approximate.

vs.

> The courses cover too much material and do so too quickly and superficially.

Maybe this is a difference in philosophy about what the AP class should be - an in-depth seminar class as opposed to survey? My impression is that HS honors classes are usually seminar style, whereas AP classes, tests, and college credit (if available) is designed like a 101-level class. If that is correct, the survey format for AP seems logical: how could there be a national, standardized test for a seminar class? So AP serves a useful purpose. But if so, his former statement above makes no sense because the latter is a description of every college 101 class.