School-Based Leadership Efforts to Narrow the Opportunity and Excellence Gaps in Diverse, Suburban High Schools Hosting Advanced Placement Programs
Open AccessThe 21st century has seen an increase of traditionally underrepresented high school students in Advanced Placement (AP) courses. This phenomenon has been nationwide, with the greatest increase of traditionally underrepresented student participation and success in AP courses observed in large suburban school districts that have: (a) a mindset that initiates and grows efforts to increase high school AP student access to AP courses and subsequent increases in enrollment, (b) substantive resources to support underrepresented students, and (c) improvement in underrepresented students’ AP end-of-course examination scores. This interpretive qualitative study focused on school-based leaders’ efforts to narrow the opportunity gap and excellence gap in large, diverse, suburban schools in a large, diverse, suburban school district. The importance in understanding the most-effective efforts to narrow the opportunity and excellence gaps led to the questions: 1. What are school-based leadership efforts to minimize the opportunity gap in identifying traditionally underrepresented high school students hosting the AP program?2. How does school-based leadership work to minimize the excellence gap in diverse, suburban public high schools’ Advanced Placement (AP) programs?The study addressed the lack of qualitative research on the topic of school-based leaders’ efforts to narrow the opportunity and excellence gaps for traditionally underrepresented students in large, suburban, diverse high schools offering the Advanced Placement program.
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