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Wysheka Austin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although African Americans and other minoritized groups have gradually increased in the number of students graduating with a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degree over the years, these groups remain underrepresented in STEM. Among the many factors contributing to the lack of representation is "college…
Descriptors: High Schools, African American Students, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation
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Conger, Dylan; Long, Mark C.; McGhee, Raymond, Jr. – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
To evaluate how Advanced Placement (AP) courses affect college-going, we randomly assigned the offer of enrollment into an AP science course to over 1,800 students in twenty-three schools that had not previously offered the course. We find no AP course effects on students' college entrance exam scores (SAT/ACT). As expected, AP course-takers are…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Enrollment Rate
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Margaret E. Thornton – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2024
Ten years ago, Sunnydale High School leaders worked with teachers and community members to create an international baccalaureate (IB)-for-all model to prevent racially and socioeconomically identifiable class levels. For nearly a decade, the program has been successful with stakeholders largely supporting the model. Following pandemic-related…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Leadership, Advanced Placement Programs, High Schools
Randall, David; Frohnen, Bruce P.; Gutzman, Kevin R. C.; Ross, Jason; Shlaes, Amity; Pettinger, William – National Association of Scholars, 2021
The study in this report focuses on four historical periods and five textbooks. The four historical periods are: (1) The European Settlement of North America (1492-1660); (2) Colonial America (1660-1763); (3) The Nation's Founding (1763-1789); and (4) The New Deal (1933-1940). Three of the 5 textbooks are intended for regular high school American…
Descriptors: United States History, Textbooks, History Instruction, High Schools
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Center for Learner Equity, 2024
This fifth of six briefs exploring data from the 2020-2021 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) data, released earlier this year, explores the access of students with disabilities to the educational opportunities that make college possible for most students: SAT and ACT testing, Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB)…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
Jessica Q. Burns-Turch – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate disproportionality with respect to Advanced Placement (AP) opportunities for students of color, post qualification, for special education services via the label Specific Learning Disability (SLD). Multiple data sources including existing data, surveys, and semi structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Advanced Placement, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
Oregon Department of Education, 2021
High School graduation rates are key indicators of accountability for high schools and school districts in Oregon. Beginning with the 2008-09 school year, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) implemented the cohort method of calculating graduation rates. The cohort method identifies the year the student entered high school for the first time…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Cohort Analysis, Accountability
Sarah Elizabeth Gudenkauf – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Advanced Placement for All (AP for All) is a high school reform movement designed to address systemic inequities in student access to advanced coursework. However, the evidence of the impact of the AP Program for traditionally underrepresented students is mixed. One way to view AP for All is as one of many examples of promising initiatives which,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Access to Education, Equal Education, Disproportionate Representation
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Cartagena, Ed; Slater, Charles L. – Journal of School Leadership, 2022
Leadership is a critical component of creating and sustaining a school culture that promotes the inclusion and success of students. The purpose of this study was to examine how school leaders helped to enact and sustain a reformed Advanced Placement (AP) culture designed to increase participation and success of students of color. Building on…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, Advanced Placement Programs
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2020
This document contains a model policy for the creation of a portfolio of options for accelerated college credit courses. This model legislation outlines a variety of accelerated college credit courses to be available within each public high school. This policy does not include the funding mechanism for accelerated college credit, but it is…
Descriptors: College Credits, High Schools, Public Schools, Acceleration (Education)
Lu, Xingchi – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Recently, in an attempt to promote globalization and internationalization, the Chinese government has introduced AP (Advanced Placement) and IB (International Baccalaureate) programs in Chinese high school. Although it is one of the biggest countries to introduce international programs to its secondary education in an effort to prepare more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, High Schools, Secondary School Mathematics
Stephanie S. Sheron; Kecia L. Addison – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2024
This memorandum provides information pertinent to the participation and performance of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations for 2023 graduates in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). In 2023, 59.3% of MCPS graduates took one or more AP exams; 17.3 percentage points more than graduates in Maryland and 24.6…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Advanced Placement, Placement Tests, High School Graduates
Brittany L. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current political trends to ban the teaching of race and racism in public schools, to eliminate Advanced Placement African American Studies classes, and to whitewash U.S. history standards, maintain hegemonic discourses, while simultaneously devaluing the teaching of Black histories and sanitizing the legacy of race and racism in U.S. society.…
Descriptors: Race, Racism, Advanced Placement Programs, Black Studies
Addison, Kecia L. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2023
This memorandum provides information pertinent to the participation and performance of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations for 2022 graduates in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). In 2022, 63.2% of MCPS graduates took one or more AP exams--21.9 percentage points more than public school graduates in…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Advanced Placement, Placement Tests, High School Graduates
Walter G. Ecton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has long played a substantial, though controversial, role within America's public schools. While supporters argue that CTE may increase student engagement and prepare students for success in the workforce, detractors caution that CTE may inhibit students' access to the rigorous academic coursework needed for…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Course Selection (Students)
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