Current and former English-language-learner high school students are less likely to take advanced classes than their native English-speaking peers, a Regional Education Laboratory Northwest study ...

The Corbett School Board has approved the final details of a major change to the district's high school curriculum. Starting this fall, Corbett High School will drop traditional 10th-grade history and ...

While some English learners and students of color may be striving to attain minimal academic competency, others are likely to be high-ability or gifted/talented students who are not receiving ...

Callahan Middle School quietly eliminated its advanced classes this school year, without notifying parents. It’s a strategy to raise school ratings, according to Mark Durham, the Nassau County School ...

Lydia Breedlove dreams of attending the University of Texas at Austin, just as her parents did. To get in automatically, she'll have to rank in the top 8 percent of her class. This year, the ...

Advanced English and science classes will no longer be offered in Des Moines middle schools this year, a move that has some parents concerned that top performers won't be challenged. Instead, students ...

Enihs Medrano, a senior at Centaurus High, is one of six students of color in her advanced Theory of Knowledge class in the International Baccalaureate program. “I am capable…..I don't need others to ...

Luis Romero has taken so many Advanced Placement courses, he can barely remember them all. AP Computer Science, Human Geography, U.S. Government, World History — the list goes on. He may sound like a ...

Bob Baker talks to his Advanced Placement physics students on the first day of class at El Camino High School on Thursday, August 16, 2012. Randy Pench rpench@sacbee.com High school students are ...

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...

Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...