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The Potential of Advanced Placement to Improve College Outcomes and Narrow Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities
The Potential of Advanced Placement to Improve College Outcomes and Narrow Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities by Dr. Sarah Phillips and Brett Lane
Published online in the June 2021 Journal of Advanced Academics, this paper describes how improving AP participation and performance among low-income White, Black, and Latino students could be a useful strategy for closing racial/ethnic disparities in college outcomes.
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