He has spent the last 10 years building successful AP Psychology and AP Economics programs. He has increased the number of students in the program while maintaining the same pass rate.Standardized tests related to the Common Core have met with a huge amount of pushback. These high-pressured tests are holding parents, teachers, and students accountable in a fashion that none of them enjoy. The tests do not do themselves a favor when they do not match the curriculum. Once that happens, all three of these stakeholders are going to scream foul!! With that starts the movement that tests are unfair and that they are not a good judgement of student learning. Picture source: Pixaby (Creative Commons CC)