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Struggling as Part of Success: International Baccalaureate Students' Productive Struggle Is Strongly Correlated to Mathematical Achievement
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Melissa Paurowski; David Glassmeyer; Jihye Kim; Lateefah Id-Deen – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
Productive struggle is an effective mathematics teaching practice that provides students opportunities to grapple with challenging mathematical concepts, connect prior knowledge, discover new ideas, and develop their critical thinking skills. Research has documented the benefits of secondary mathematics students engaging in productive struggle.…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 11, Grade 12
The Advanced Placement Program and Educational Inequality
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Stephanie Owen – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is widely offered in American high schools and has been touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the relationship between AP course availability,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
International Education and the Rise of Paleoconservative Thought: Mapping the Growth of the International Baccalaureate in the United States along County-Level Voting Patterns
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Tiago Bittencourt; Gabriela Bustamante Callejas – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
Despite the growing presence and visibility of paleoconservative critique of international curricula such as the IB, little scholarly attention has been invested in discerning how the rise of paleoconservative thought in mainstream politics has shaped or even redirected the IB's growth in the United States. This study strives to address this gap…
Descriptors: Voting, Counties, Political Attitudes, International Education
The Advanced Placement Program and Educational Inequality
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Stephanie Owen – Grantee Submission, 2024
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is widely offered in American high schools and has been touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the relationship between AP course availability,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences