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The Advanced Placement Program in Texas -- Local Access Offered by Public School Districts Is Decreasing While the Breadth of Differentiated Courses Offered Is Increasing
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Ellegood, William A.; Bernard Bracy, Jill M.; Sweeney, Donald C., II – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2023
This article presents an analysis of the participation of Texas public school districts in the Advanced Placement (AP) program for academic years ending 2013 through 2019. We develop and estimate to a panel of school district data a hurdle count model composed of: (1) a first stage fixed effect binomial logistic regression model of the probability…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, School Districts, Access to Education
Letting Go of the Middle Years Programme: Three Schools' Rationales for Discontinuing an International Baccalaureate Program
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Dickson, Anisah; Perry, Laura B.; Ledger, Susan – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2020
International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP) is recognized for its rigor, inquiry-based learning, and development of academic skills. While it is growing in popularity worldwide, some schools have discontinued the program. Literature on the reasons why schools discontinue the MYP is limited. Using a qualitative case study design, we…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Middle School Students, Program Termination, Private Schools
Still Where, Not If, You're Poor: International Baccalaureate Opportunities to Learn International-Mindedness and Proximity to U.S. Cities
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Thier, Michael; Beach, Paul T. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2021
By matching International Baccalaureate (IB) and non-IB U.S. public schools based on state, grade span, and enrollment, we used recent public data to confirm relations among a hierarchy of school characteristics and whether schools made available any of IB's four programs. We fortified prior claims regarding how poverty, minority concentration,…
Descriptors: Poverty, Advanced Placement Programs, Enrollment Trends, Correlation