At age 19, he served as a missionary in Milwaukee, before earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at Brigham Young University[1] in English.
[2][3] Packer began his career with the College Board as a temporary employee for the AP office in New York City while earning a PhD in English.
[5][6] Packer's rapid expansion of the program generated criticism that AP was financially benefiting from underprepared and underprivileged students taking exams.
[7][8] Packer responded to these criticisms by emphasizing that average test scores had not dropped significantly when access to the courses was expanded.
[10] Nat Malkus, a researcher at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, praised Packer's expansion of the AP program as the "rarest kind of success in public education".