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Direct linkCorcoran, Sean P.; Baker-Smith, Christine – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2015
New York City's specialized high schools have a long history of offering a rigorous, college preparatory, public education to some of NYC's highest-achieving students. Despite enrolling only a small fraction of the City's high school students, the specialized schools have become a powerful symbol in a larger public debate about educational equity.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Special Schools, College Preparation
Peer reviewedParker, Walter; Mosborg, Susan; Bransford, John; Vye, Nancy; Wilkerson, John; Abbott, Robert – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
This paper reports a design experiment that attempted to strike a balance between coverage and learning in an exam-oriented, college-preparatory, high school course--Advanced Placement (AP) US Government and Politics. Theoretically, the study provides a conceptual framework for penetrating the depth/breadth tension in such courses, which are known…
Descriptors: High Schools, Advanced Placement, College Preparation, Course Descriptions
Hallett, Ronald E.; Venegas, Kristan M. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2011
This article combines descriptive statistics and interviews with college-bound high school students to explore the connection between increased access and academic quality of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in low-income urban high schools. Results suggest that although moderately more opportunities to take AP courses exist than in previous years,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Advanced Placement, Low Income
Klevan, Sarah; Villavicencio, Adriana; Wulach, Suzanne – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2013
In August of 2011, NYC launched the Young Men's Initiative (YMI)--an ambitious set of programs across several City agencies aimed at improving outcomes for Black and Latino males. The bulk of YMI's education effort is the Expanded Success Initiative (ESI), which provides funding and support to 40 high schools to help them improve college and…
Descriptors: Males, College Preparation, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Klevan, Sarah; Villavicencio, Adriana; Wulach, Suzanne – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2013
In August of 2011, NYC launched the Young Men's Initiative (YMI)--an ambitious set of programs across several City agencies aimed at improving outcomes for Black and Latino males. The bulk of YMI's education effort is the Expanded Success Initiative (ESI), which provides funding and support to 40 high schools to help them improve college and…
Descriptors: Males, College Preparation, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Download full textACT, Inc., 2006
This study profiles two high schools with high enrollments of low-income and racial/ethnic minority students: Thornton Fractional North High School (TF North) and Dumas High School (DHS). Both schools have substantial enrollments of low-income and racial/ethnic minority students and, despite the odds, are successfully preparing students for their…
Descriptors: High Schools, Minority Groups, Barriers, Case Studies
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1886
The Commissioner of Education presents facts relating to State reports, recess or no recess, school legislation; statistics of correspondents of the Bureau; growth of education in the United States; school ages, summary of statistics of State systems; summary of the statistics of the last ten years; school population, enrollment, and average…
Descriptors: Recess Breaks, State Legislation, Educational Demand, School Statistics
Sassani, Abul H. K. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1952
The Office of Education has undertaken the preparation of a series of basic studies on education in a number of countries in Europe and Central and South America. This series of studies was made a part of a program to promote understanding of education conditions in those areas and also to furnish the American college registrars with data on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, World History
Windes, Eustace E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This bibliography of 287 studies was completed during the period September 1925--March 1927. The sources of information used in the compilation of this bibliography were reports from schools of education, State departments of education, educational organizations and foundations, and publications received by the United States Bureau of Education.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Research Reports, Fine Arts
