Advanced Placement United States History Teacher Pete Blagaich, in his scholarly article “Advanced Placement
Courses Are Not for Everyone” (The History Teacher, vol. 32, no. 2, Feb. 1999), suggests that difficult AP
classes should not use an open enrollment policy and should instead have strict enrollment criteria for
admittance. Blagaich supports his thesis by using anecdotal and empirical evidence; he includes
evidence of how his students performed better on the AP U.S. History Examination after his school enacted
AP enrollment criteria. Blagaich intended to educate his teaching peers on the benefits of enrollment criteria
so that they too would implement the criteria and see increased testing performances. Blagaich writes from the perspective of a teacher, uses educational jargon, and maintains an academic tone because he is writing for fellow history teachers in an academic journal: The History Teacher.
Courses Are Not for Everyone” (The History Teacher, vol. 32, no. 2, Feb. 1999), suggests that difficult AP
classes should not use an open enrollment policy and should instead have strict enrollment criteria for
admittance. Blagaich supports his thesis by using anecdotal and empirical evidence; he includes
evidence of how his students performed better on the AP U.S. History Examination after his school enacted
AP enrollment criteria. Blagaich intended to educate his teaching peers on the benefits of enrollment criteria
so that they too would implement the criteria and see increased testing performances. Blagaich writes from the perspective of a teacher, uses educational jargon, and maintains an academic tone because he is writing for fellow history teachers in an academic journal: The History Teacher.
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