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Stephanie Owen – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is widely offered in American high schools and has been touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the relationship between AP course availability,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
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Stephanie Owen – Grantee Submission, 2024
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is widely offered in American high schools and has been touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the relationship between AP course availability,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
Stephanie Owen – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is nearly ubiquitous in American high schools and is often touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the causal effect of AP course availability on…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
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Boyd, Sandra – State Education Standard, 2017
Over the past two decades, college and career readiness became a priority in K-12 education. While graduation rates have been rising, far too many high school graduates are not ready to succeed in college or a job. Employers note that freshly-minted employees too often need additional training to perform their roles, many are ineligible for…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement
Kaloger, James Heracles – 1970
The purpose of this study was to attempt to identify those factors that influence a high school student's success on the Advanced Placement (AP) Examinations by examining and comparing the variables contained in the high school records of former AP participants. A total of 248 high school students participated in the research. The criterion for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, Cognitive Processes, English Education