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Long, Mark C.; Conger, Dylan; McGhee, Raymond, Jr. – Educational Researcher, 2019
The Advanced Placement (AP) program has undergone two major reforms in recent decades: the first aimed at increasing access and the second at increasing relevance. Both initiatives are partially designed to increase the number of high school students from low-income backgrounds who have access to college-level coursework. Yet critics argue that…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Program Implementation, Low Income Students, High School Students
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Ellen, Ingrid Gould; O'Regan, Katherine; Conger, Dylan – Education and Urban Society, 2009
The authors use a rich data set on New York City public elementary schools to explore how changes in immigrant representation have played out at the school level, providing a set of stylistic facts about the magnitude and nature of demographic changes in urban schools. They find that while the city experienced an overall increase in its immigrant…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, Immigrants, Immigration