Limited Access to AP Courses for Students in Smaller and More Isolated Rural School Districts. National Issue Brief Number 80.
Limited Access to AP Courses for Students in Smaller and More Isolated Rural School Districts. National Issue Brief Number 80.
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较小和较偏僻的农村学区的学生获得 AP 课程的机会有限。
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2015
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Marybeth J Mattingly
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Douglas J. Gagnon;Marybeth J Mattingly
The call for college and career readiness pervades state and federal policy initiatives, reflecting a growing sense that an increasing number of high school graduates are underprepared for the demands of postsecondary education. Despite the push for high, common standards, high school students engage in very different curricula in terms of both content and rigor. Advanced Placement (AP) coursework offers high school students more intense academic training, consisting of a series of college-level courses and assessments. Completing AP coursework may give students valuable experience, and college credit is often earned through success on end-of-year examinations.1 This brief assesses trends in access to, enrollment in, and success in AP coursework (see Box 1 on page 2) in relation to school district poverty, racial composition, and urbanicity (see Box 2 on page 4). It uses data merged from the 2011– 2012 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), the 2012 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE), and the 2010 Decennial U.S. Census. These data reflect AP access, enrollment, and success only at the district level. Consequently, it is not possible to draw conclusions about individual students or school-level trends from this analysis. Note that when examining AP enrollment and success, we consider only those districts that offer some access to AP coursework.