And when they do, white students are far more likely than blacks to be placed in higher-level classes, based on test scores and teacher recommendations.
Ms. Buehler of Yoga High cautions that it its not just advanced students who will suffer from a lack of higher-level classes.
When Weinberg crunched the numbers further (controlling for grades), he found that those who did well in the higher-level classes were not more likely to have given their introductory-class professor a positive evaluation.
We could never agree on which higher-level classes would measure how much students learned the previous semester — in what class can you demonstrate the skills mastered in Blackface Minstrelsy?
"It sometimes bothers me to see how many of my African-American friends aren't in the higher-level classes, and how they try to be cool around their friends by acting up and trying to be silly and getting in fights," said Sierre, who this year moved up to honors in everything but math.
"A lot of times we thought our students weren't given the opportunity to matriculate in higher-level classes," said Mrs. McCargo, who noted that she had been heartened by the changes since she and her husband, William, graduated from Cherry Hill West -- and even since her older children had graduated at least 15 years ago.
Airbnb rolled out its intro data science classes first, making a statement that the program was about more than just engineers, though the more technically inclined will be getting additional higher-level classes moving forward.
In Woodburn and other districts with dual-language programs, it's a continuous challenge to find teachers who are qualified to teach subjects like science and math in foreign languages -- especially in higher-level classes.
Next, we tested whether the model fit improved if the number of higher-level classes was increased.
Third, we fixed the number of higher-level classes to the value of step 2 and redetermined the number of lower-level classes.
