AP Achievement Gap Not Closing Despite Large Increases In Low Income students Taking AP

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The Advanced Placement Arms Race and the Reproduction of Educational Inequality
by Joshua Klugman
From 2000 to 2002, the state of California attempted to expand access to Advanced Placement subjects for students attending public schools. This study shows this intervention succeeded in expanding the AP curricula and enrollments at disadvantaged schools; however, schools serving affluent communities broadened their AP offerings at the same (if not faster) rate, resulting in effectively maintained inequalities in AP access.

 

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