Editing Advanced Placement (section)

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Lichten appears to have been the first to question whether AP can maintain high academic standards while experiencing explosive growth.<ref name="Lichten, 2000">{{cite journal|last1=Lichten|first1=William|title=Whither Advanced Placement|journal=Education Policy Analysis Archives|year=2000|volume=8|issue=29|page=29|doi=10.14507/epaa.v8n29.2000|url=http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/420|access-date=January 12, 2017|doi-access=free|archive-date=January 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113171857/http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/420|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Lichten, 2010">{{cite book|last1=Lichten|first1=William|editor1-last=Sadler|editor1-first=P. M.|editor2-last=Sonnert|editor2-first=G.|editor3-last=Tai|editor3-first=R. H.|editor4-last=Klopfenstein|editor4-first=K.|title=AP: A critical examination of the Advanced Placement program|date=2010|publisher=Harvard Education Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=233–243|chapter=Whither Advanced Placement--now?}}</ref>  Whether the AP program can serve large numbers of students well is a matter of some concern within the education field.<ref name="Warne, 2017">{{cite journal|last1=Warne|first1=R. T.|title=Research on the academic benefits of the Advanced Placement program: Taking stock and looking forward |journal=SAGE Open|year=2017|volume=7|issue=1|pages=215824401668299|doi=10.1177/2158244016682996|doi-access=free}}</ref>