The Advanced Placement (AP) program offers an opportunity for students to earn college
credit and develop college-ready skills in high school. The curriculum was initially designed …

Despite their egalitarian ethos, schools are social sorting machines, creating categories that
serve as the foundation of later life inequalities. In this review, we apply the theory of …

Personalised learning is now broadly endorsed as a key strategy to improve student
curricular engagement and academic attainment, but there is also strong critique of this …

Schools use an array of strategies to match curricula and instruction to students'
heterogeneous skills. Although generations of scholars have debated ''tracking''and its …

When do adolescents' dreams of promising journeys through high school translate into
academic success? This monograph reports the results of a collaborative effort among …

In an effort to understand teacher-student relationships much research has investigated how
teacher expectations of student performance in the classroom affect achievement growth …

There is a long history indicating that during times of reform, the interests and needs of Black
children are in many ways dismissed. This history culminated in 1990's to what is described …

Recent scholarship has examined how accelerated math trajectories leading to calculus
take shape during middle school. The focus of this study is on advanced math course taking …

The labeling hypothesis argues that mixed-ability classrooms foster the academic self-
concept of students with low academic achievement because they lose their negative track …

Over three decades ago, a book by British researchers laid out the powerful role of schools
in the life course. Its title, Fifteen Thousand Hours (Rutter, Maughan, Mortimer, & Ouston …