Trevor Packer

Trevor Packer is the senior vice-president of the College Board in charge of AP exams, known for his presence on Twitter. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Trevor Packer
OccupationCollege Board senior vice-president in charge of AP exams
Years active2003-present

Personal life

Packer is the oldest of nine siblings and grew up in the LDS Church, late attending Brigham Young University.[1] Packer graduated valedictorian of his high school.[1] While at Brigham Young University, he studied English literature (particularly of the Victorian era).[2] He was initially planning on obtaining a PhD, but ultimately obtained a masters degree.[3] For his "mission" as part of the Mormon church, he was sent to Milwaukee.[1]

College Board

Packer has led the AP program for the College Board since 2003.[2] Previously, he had worked as a part-time employee but was persuaded to become a full-time employee by then-AP director Lee Jones.[1] Packer is known amongst AP students for his presence on Twitter (under the handle @AP_Trevor).[1]

gollark: In any case, if you have a planned system and some new need comes up... what do you do, spend weeks updating the models and rerunning them? That is not really quick enough.
gollark: If you want to factor in each individual location's needs in some giant model, you'll run into issues like:- people lying- it would be horrifically complex
gollark: Information flow: imagine some farmer, due to some detail of their climate/environment, needs extra wood or something. But the central planning models just say "each farmer needs 100 units of wood for farming 10 units of pig"; what are they meant to do?
gollark: The incentives problems: central planners aren't really as affected by how well they do their jobs as, say, someone managing a firm, and you probably lack a way to motivate people "on the ground" as it were.
gollark: What, so you just want us to be stuck at one standard of living forever? No. Technology advances and space mining will... probably eventually happen.

See also

References
  1. "Meet the man who made Advanced Placement the most influential — and controversial — tool in American education". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  2. "Trevor Packer – Sr. Vice President, AP and Instruction – College Board". About Us. 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  3. "Bloomberg - Are you a robot?". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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