Inglewood High School in South LA, which is 97 percent black or Latino, has three AP classes. Beverly Hills High School has 32 AP classes, and 14 courses. I could go on. You know the story. And I say, so tell me about your school.
Honors is the bottom.
That's what the structure is screaming. Tracks speak louder than yelling at teachers to have high expectations. Teachers and kids read those structures. Let me also say that a group of us at City University of New York just completed an amazing study recently, provoked in part by the Amadou Diallo murder by police. Needless to say, white girls and black boys are growing up in very different cities.