He has a longtime girlfriend but has never married and has no children, although he does have 23 nieces and nephews. He once taught freshman college English but never a high school class. Packer’s official title is College Board senior vice president for Advanced Placement and instruction. Trevor Packer has been director of the College Board’s Advanced Placement program since 2003. Most of all, they don’t know Trevor Packer. They don’t appear to know much about the students from low-income families pouring into AP classes. The reality is that many elite college educators have little contact with the public high schools where AP is booming. Some might see these moves as a threat to AP’s foothold, but so far they’ve had little effect on the program’s continuing growth. And earlier this year, seven Washington-area prep schools said they would be eliminating AP courses from their curriculums. In 2013, Dartmouth College announced that it would no longer give incoming students credit toward graduation for high school AP courses. The public schools with AP educate 89 percent of all public high-schoolers. But some educators at private institutions think that a program this popular can’t be right for their students. And his leadership is a critical factor at a time when AP is both undergoing rapid expansion and facing criticism and nascent challenges.Ībout 16,000 public and private schools offer AP courses. Packer, but He is also - along with the late Jaime Escalante, the East Los Angeles math teacher who was the subject of the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver” - the man most responsible for making the Advanced Placement program the most powerful educational tool in the country. He is the fabled bookworm emperor of AP Land.
Tens of thousands of teenagers follow him on Twitter. This is the first published article about him and his life. A scholarly, mild-mannered 48-year-old, Packer is pretty much unknown outside the world of AP. Thirty years later, due to a string of unlikely events, Packer is national director of the AP program and determined to make its fruits accessible to kids from modest backgrounds like his own.
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