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Marasco, David; Dreyfuss, Bree Barnett – Physics Teacher, 2022
In 2018, in response to the proposed elimination of physics at a predominately Hispanic and socioeconomically disadvantaged (SED) high school, the Northern California/Nevada chapter of the AAPT investigated school demographics and their effect on physics offerings in public high schools in our region. As access was a key issue, the focus was on…
Descriptors: High Schools, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Physics
Sax, Linda J.; Newhouse, Kaitlin N. S.; Goode, Joanna; Nakajima, Tomoko M.; Skorodinsky, Max; Sendowski, Michelle – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
The Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (APCSP) course was introduced in 2016 to address long-standing gender and racial/ethnic disparities in the United States among students taking Advanced Placement Computer Science (APCS) in high school, as well as among those who pursued computing majors in college. Although APCSP has drawn a more…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Computer Science Education, Equal Education, High School Students
Marissa Mauro – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In a hypercompetitive academic culture propelled by acceptance into the nation's prestigious colleges and universities, there has been a growing number of secondary students who are fixated on pursuing advanced coursework. This phenomenon of students beginning a sequence of advanced mathematics courses at the middle school level so they can take…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Acceleration (Education), Mathematics Instruction, Asian American Students
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2017
The International Baccalaureate (IB) program is an advanced course of study that spans all four years of high school and research finds that participation can boost high school graduation rates for students from low-income families. This fact sheet examines IB's impact in Chicago Public Schools and guides state and district leaders through various…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, High Schools, Public Schools, Urban Schools
Hutchins, Shaun; Looby, Karen; Reach, Jacob – Online Submission, 2016
This report provides a summary of the district's gap analyses, Equity Self-Assessment Survey results, current research, and district action steps.
Descriptors: School Districts, Equal Education, Educational Improvement, Program Evaluation
Neumerski, Christine M.; Cohen, David K. – Educational Policy, 2019
The identity of public school systems changed dramatically over the past 25 years, as standards-based reform held schools accountable for more equal and academically demanding education for poorer and more diverse students. We argue that identity also changed in private and hybrid school systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with 40 school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Institutional Characteristics, Private Schools, Montessori Schools
Whitney, Brendan M.; Cheng, Ying; Brodersen, Alex S.; Hong, Maxwell R. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Student engagement has been a focal point of research, partly due to its efficacy in promoting long-term academic success. However, many scales are designed to measure engagement across the school setting rather than within specific classes. Though some accomplish the latter, there are even fewer designed to measure student engagement for…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Statistics, Measures (Individuals), High School Students
Warne, Russell T.; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M. – Educational Researcher, 2019
Increasing the number of students choosing a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) career is a national educational priority. One way thought to increase interest in STEM is with advanced STEM courses in high school, especially Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Using data from 15,847 college undergraduates, we investigated the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics Instruction, STEM Education, Science Careers
Dow, Shae-Brie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education & The Southern Regional Education Board (2010), there is a disparity between those who are college-eligible, and those who are actually college-ready. In New Jersey, a large percentage of students who graduate from its public schools are inadequately prepared for the…
Descriptors: School Size, Correlation, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Scanlan, Andrew E. – Princeton University Press, 2019
The Advanced Placement program stands as the foremost source of college-level academics for millions of high school students in the United States and beyond. More than 22,000 schools now participate in it, across nearly forty subjects, from Latin and art to calculus and computer science. Yet remarkably little has been known about how this…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational History, High School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Gonzalez Hernandez, Vanessa – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2019
This Research Brief summarizes the performance of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) students participating in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The IB program was offered at six M-DCPS high schools in 2018-2019. Over 3,000 examinations were taken by M-DCPS students in 26 subject areas in 2018-2019. The number of IB examinations…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students, Hispanic American Students
Shi, Qi; Brown, Margaux H. – Professional School Counseling, 2020
Using the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, we investigated school counselors' caseloads, how they spent their time, and the impact of those factors on schools' academic outcomes. Results showed that approximately 85% of the school counselors had a caseload of 455 or fewer students, with roughly one quarter reporting caseloads equal to or…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies
Keisha McIntyre-McCullough – English Journal, 2020
Overall, the author wanted to teach using culturally responsive approaches. The ELA teacher can fuel social justice teaching. In this article, the author discusses how their personal biases affected their classroom instruction and how they shifted their educational philosophy to consider the needs and interests of their students. In US education,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Social Justice, Course Content
Oded Gurantz; Michael Hurwitz; Jonathan Smith – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Younger siblings take more advanced high school course end of year exams when their older siblings perform better in those same exams. Using a regression discontinuity and data from millions of siblings who take Advanced Placement (AP) exams, we show that younger siblings with older siblings who marginally "pass" an AP exam are more…
Descriptors: Siblings, High School Students, Advanced Placement, Gender Differences
Coleman, Sandra Lee; Skidmore, Susan Troncoso; Martirosyan, Nara M. – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2021
Despite their better-than-average preparation, former dual credit and advanced placement students have placed into developmental education upon entering higher education. In this phenomenological study, six students were randomly selected to be interviewed from a group of 562 who placed into developmental education at one Texas university during a…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Advanced Placement, Dual Enrollment, Phenomenology