Report: AP Courses Not Available for Black Students: The vast majority of Black high school graduates from the Class of 2011 who could have done well in an AP course never enrolled in one because they were either “left out” or went to a school that didn’t offer the college prep courses.
That’s one of the key findings of the eighth annual AP Report to the Nation released Wednesday by the College Board.
“If there’s one chart that’s the most powerful and the most haunting, this is the one that captures the most attention in my eyes,” said Trevor Packer, senior vice president of AP and College Readiness at the College Board, during a webinar on Wednesday in which he offered commentary on the new report.
He was referring to Figure 6 of the report, which shows that 79.7 percent of Black students who could have done well in an AP course did not take one.
