College Acceleration for All? Mapping Racial Gaps in Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Participation

Autor/inn/en	Xu, Di; Solanki, Sabrina; Fink, John
Institution	American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Titel	College Acceleration for All? Mapping Racial Gaps in Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Participation
Quelle	(2020), (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Advanced Placement Programs; Dual Enrollment; College Credits; High School Students; Acceleration (Education); Program Effectiveness; College Attendance; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Equal Education; Disproportionate Representation; Enrollment Trends; Racial Bias; School Districts; Socioeconomic Status; Low Income Students; Minority Group Students; At Risk Students; Educational Attainment; Racial Composition; High Schools; Institutional Characteristics; State Policy; Educational Policy; Geographic Location; American Community Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Doppelstudium; College; Colleges; Achievement; Performance; Anrechnung; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Leistung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Acceleration; Beschleunigung; Attendance; Anwesenheit; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; School district; Schulbezirk; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	Advanced Placement (AP) and dual enrollment (DE) are the two most popular programs that allow students to earn college credits while in high school. Researchers have noted several benefits of college acceleration programs on students' postsecondary outcomes. Particularly, these programs offer the opportunity to improve college attendance rates among underrepresented students. Yet, persistent racial disparities in student enrollment and success rates exist in these college acceleration programs. Given the benefits of AP and DE enrollment for students' college success, especially for students from underrepresented groups, racial gaps in participation rates would be important indicators of educational inequality. However, little is known about how racial gaps are distributed geographically and what factors may mitigate or exacerbate these disparities. This report discusses the patterns of racial enrollment gaps in AP and DE programs across thousands of US school districts. To explain these racial disparities in college acceleration programs, the authors analyze how school-related and non-school factors influence these gaps. The authors find that the vast majority of districts have racial enrollment gaps in both programs, with wider gaps in AP than DE. Additionally, the results indicate that geographic variations in these gaps can be explained by local and state factors. The authors also find that district and state policies that seek to provide increased college acceleration programming are associated with wider racial enrollment gaps, implying that greater resources may engender racial disparity without adequate efforts to provide equitable program access to minority students. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01