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The claim that "college-ready students took more AP tests" is a Richwine fabrication. The SAT report says no such thing. It does say that more college-ready students took rigorous classwork, with AP and honors classes lumped together. Taking an AP class does not necessarily mean taking the AP test.

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I'm a journalist, and I do the kind of work Richwine claims to have done here all the time--that is, I condense lengthy reports into user-friendly soundbites. I would never do what he did in this piece (for one thing, it would be a fireable offense). Is it the worst journalistic misdeed of all time? No. But it's intentionally misleading.