The interactive impact of race and gender on high school advanced course enrollment

Journal of Negro Education

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-46

  Corra, Mamadi ^a   Scott Carter, J ^b   Carter, Shannon K ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic disparities; Accelerated academic programs; Ap high school courses; Educational inequality; Racial achievement gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960204168     PISSN: 00222984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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