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An Analysis Of Race And Gender In Select Choice Programs Within Brevard County Public Schools, Synthia Doaks
An Analysis Of Race And Gender In Select Choice Programs Within Brevard County Public Schools, Synthia Doaks
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The focus of this research was to compare the student membership population proportions, by race and gender, of Brevard County Public School students with the actual participation in select choice programs offered to Brevard County public high school students. This study was based on an analysis of the scores of 1,152 eighth-grade students who received a score of 4 or 5 on the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) mathematics and a score of 4 or 5 on the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) reading and their participation in high school advanced academic courses. The advanced academic choice programs …