Exploring Equity in Advanced Coursework Enrollment Practices Through a Multiple-Case Study: A Collaborative Approach (Poster 3): Division H - Section 1: Applied Research in Schools, 11:37 AM

• In Event: e-Lightening Ed-Talk Session 17

Abstract

Students from Black, Latina/o/x, and low socioeconomic status backgrounds have been underrepresented in advanced coursework across K-12 education. To explore how school and district-level enrollment and tracking practices perpetuate and ameliorate these disparities, a research-practice partnership (RPP) conducted a multiple case study in a suburban middle school and rural high school. School district partners actively contributed to school selection as well as data interpretation. Parents, educators, and students shared about how early entry into accelerated tracks, proactive communication, and school and district support facilitated access and success in advanced coursework, but also how that support was not always distributed proportionately across advanced and non-advanced tracks. These themes from the qualitative data informed recommendations for research, policy, and practice.

Authors

• David Bryant Naff, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Tomika L. Ferguson, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Isaiah Moore, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Amy E. Jefferson, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Jenna Lenhardt, Virginia Commonwealth University