The Case for Expanding Access to Advanced Courses Before High School

In this Education Week article, Evie Blad summarizes a new CALDER paper that examines how policies that automatically enroll 11th and 12th grade students into advanced courses affect those students' later college outcomes, such as enrollment in college and advanced math course taking. The study finds no significant effects of the policy on students' college outcomes, and suggests that students may need to be accelerated earlier in their academic careers in order to see longer-run impacts. Read the article below to learn more.