After all, both are designed to mirror college-level English ... course options with care. Both classes presume native or near-native proficiency with the English language. In both AP English ...

Today, college English classes are apt to focus mainly on "progressive" obsessions with race, gender, intersectionality, and so on, rather than on clear writing, Shakespeare's plays, or great novels.

Until recently, most students at Cuyamaca College near San Diego had to take multiple English remedial classes before they could enter the English course that mattered most to many — the one they ...