Black students are more likely to enroll in advanced coursework—honors classes, Advanced Placement courses, or International Baccalaureate classes—when a black teacher is among the educators teaching ...
High school students are more likely to choose honors and other advanced courses in their junior or senior years, but for some students, that might be too late. To ramp up the number of ...
Connecticut’s education chief remembers the response she got from several local school leaders in 2014 when her department mailed 20,000 letters urging high school students to enroll in advanced ...
The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for the college bound, the AP tests a chance for the best and ...
SAN ANTONIO — In a state that has passed anti-diversity laws and tried to squelch instruction on systemic racism, a new law could open doors for Latino and Black children long shut out of advanced ...
The state is pushing school districts to make Advanced Placement and other top courses more widely available to all high school students, particularly African-American and Hispanic students, as part ...
Research is mixed on whether taking advanced courses in high school leads to stronger grades in college, but studies do suggest that students who participate in those classes are at least more likely ...
Our advanced courses explore general management topics in greater depth. While many students take 5.5 units of advanced courses, you may opt out of one to two units (taking a total of 3.5 units) to ...
Houston Independent School District is overhauling how high school students are enrolled in advanced courses next year, automatically placing those who achieve at grade level into more challenging ...