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Saunders, Terrie; Maloney, Kathy – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
Minority students were about 25% of the student population at Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1995. But the composition of its honors and challenge classes did not reflect this diversity: Few minority students were taking challenge classes as underclassmen and even fewer were taking Advanced Placement (AP) courses as seniors. This paper…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Achievement, Minority Groups, High Schools