How does race affect the student’s experience of an AP class?
Introduction
Our high school years are some of the most delicate in our lives and they are also a time in which we develop the most as people. Every day we are surrounded by hundreds of students and teachers wandering the halls of our schools and communities challenging themselves to achieve a better future. Taking honors courses or AP courses are strenuous and sometimes stressful, but in the end, they are deemed to prepare you for your life after high school. In these accelerated courses, everyone’s experience is bound to differ. Students may feel over-stressed even though others may feel right at home. These courses are a way to open yourselves to new academic opportunities. However, these classes have been known to be predominantly white. So how does race affect Blacks and Latinos in their studies? Would students, or even teachers, treat some races differently than others in these courses? What are these students’ experience with the AP Program like? This research prospectus aims to answer the preceding questions through an experiment at Oakland Tech and to discover the educational significance of the Advanced Placement courses and race through the 1) feedback of students …show more content…
As opposed to regular school courses, the curriculum, pace and difficulty are all tweaked to ensure that the students are receiving the full benefits of the AP course (Popielarski). However, when looking deeper into the demographics of these Advanced Placement courses, there seems to be a pattern, in that these classes were predominantly white. In 2001, of the total AP exams given in the US, only 4.3% of the exams were taken by African Americans and 4.9% by Latino students (Higgins). These statistics sparked a discussion whether race posed any alarming issues in the AP
Introduction
Our high school years are some of the most delicate in our lives and they are also a time in which we develop the most as people. Every day we are surrounded by hundreds of students and teachers wandering the halls of our schools and communities challenging themselves to achieve a better future. Taking honors courses or AP courses are strenuous and sometimes stressful, but in the end, they are deemed to prepare you for your life after high school. In these accelerated courses, everyone’s experience is bound to differ. Students may feel over-stressed even though others may feel right at home. These courses are a way to open yourselves to new academic opportunities. However, these classes have been known to be predominantly white. So how does race affect Blacks and Latinos in their studies? Would students, or even teachers, treat some races differently than others in these courses? What are these students’ experience with the AP Program like? This research prospectus aims to answer the preceding questions through an experiment at Oakland Tech and to discover the educational significance of the Advanced Placement courses and race through the 1) feedback of students …show more content…
As opposed to regular school courses, the curriculum, pace and difficulty are all tweaked to ensure that the students are receiving the full benefits of the AP course (Popielarski). However, when looking deeper into the demographics of these Advanced Placement courses, there seems to be a pattern, in that these classes were predominantly white. In 2001, of the total AP exams given in the US, only 4.3% of the exams were taken by African Americans and 4.9% by Latino students (Higgins). These statistics sparked a discussion whether race posed any alarming issues in the AP