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Direct linkCollege Board, 2006
As individuals celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Advanced Placement Program[R] (AP[R]) in U.S. schools, they should honor the educators who are enabling a wider and more diverse group of U.S. students than ever before to succeed in college-level studies in high school. Yet they must also gaze clear-eyed at the inequities that remain and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Public Schools, Advanced Placement, Academic Achievement
Download full textAscher, Carol – 1982
Summaries of current research on aspects of urban and minority education are compiled in these fact sheets. The first report provides guidelines for counseling in a multicultural educational setting, and outlines what counselors should know about and what they can do for students of culturally different backgrounds. The second report, which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Counseling
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report compares Arizona's reading and mathematics performance on the most recent administrations of the state assessment with performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To indicate how Arizona is doing in narrowing the academic achievement gap between African American, Latino, or low-income students and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, American Indians, Asian American Students
Fisher, Maurice D., Ed. – Gifted Education Press Quarterly, 1995
This document consists of the four issues of the newsletter "Gifted Education Press Quarterly" published during 1995. This newsletter addresses issues in the education of gifted children and youth. The major articles are: (1) "Using Today's Technology: Parents Can Help Challenge Gifted Children" (Adrienne O'Neill); (2)…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Black Students, Creative Thinking
Rights at Risk: Equality in an Age of Terrorism. Report of the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights.
Piche, Dianne M., Ed.; Taylor, William L., Ed.; Reed, Robin A., Ed. – 2002
This volume chronicles the progress of the administration, executive branch agencies, and Congress in ending discrimination and advancing civil rights. The study has 21 chapters in 2 parts. Part one includes: (1) "Rights at Risk"; and (2) "Recommendations of the Commission." Part two includes a series of working papers prepared…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Diversity (Student), Educational Policy
Zuniga, Keren; Olson, Joanne K.; Winter, Mary – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
This study investigated the effects of one rural high school's science course placement practices on Latino/a student success in science, as measured by performance in a required science course and enrollment in subsequent science courses. The high school involved in this study has experienced a rapid increase in language minority students and…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Academic Ability, White Students, Standardized Tests
Wolfe, Leslie R., Ed. – 1991
This book of 13 papers resulted from a May, 1988, conference which examined the link between sex stereotyping in education and occupational inequities in the workplace. The book is organized in five parts. Papers in the first two parts assess the impact of sex and race stereotyping and discrimination on girls in school. Next the workplace issues,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Blacks, Career Development, Computer Literacy
Justiz, Manuel J., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book presents 19 papers on efforts to increase the participation of members of minority groups in higher education. The papers are: (1) "Demographic Trends and the Challenges to American Higher Education" (Manuel Justiz); (2) "Three Realities: Minority Life in the United States--The Struggle for Economic Equity (adapted by Don…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, American Indians
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report compares California's reading and mathematics performance on the most recent administrations of the state assessment with performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To indicate how California is doing in narrowing the academic achievement gap between African American, Latino, or low-income students and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Black Students, Educational Attainment
Peer reviewedBunzel, John H. – Public Interest, 1988
Examines the negative effects of the affirmative action admissions program at the University of California Berkeley, and briefly discusses the qualifications of minority college bound students and minority recruitment in general. (FMW)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, American Indians
Comer, James; And Others – 1987
The three conference papers presented in this document are grouped under the general heading, "Our National Dilemma," and deal with issues involved in providing disadvantaged students with a quality education. The first paper, "Building Quality Relationships" (James Comer), discusses the need to improve the quality of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black History, Black Students, Early Experience
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
The National Commission for Employment Policy has examined ways that the United States federal government could improve the economic situation of disadvantaged women. In particular, the Commission examined, during 1980, the role of education and employment and training programs in helping women to prepare for better paying occupations, and then…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Apprenticeships, Blacks
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report compares Arkansas's reading and mathematics performance on the most recent administrations of the state assessment with performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To indicate how Arkansas is doing in narrowing the academic achievement gap between African American, Latino, or low-income students and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, American Indians, Black Students
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report compares Delaware's reading and mathematics performance on the most recent administrations of the state assessment with performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To indicate how Delaware is doing in narrowing the academic achievement gap between African American, Latino, or low-income students and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Black Students, Educational Attainment
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report compares District of Columbia's (DC) reading and mathematics performance on the most recent administrations of the District's assessment with performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To indicate how District of Columbia is doing in narrowing the academic achievement gap between African American, Latino, or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Black Students, Educational Attainment
