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Indeed, our survey of the materials that the school district made available to students for their high school coursework planning revealed no relationship between taking honors courses and college attendance. Nonetheless, our conversations with students enrolled in these classes indicated that honors students understood fully that taking honorslevel courses would help them gain admission into college and to perform better in college. But students not enrolled in these courses had no idea of what opportunities had been denied them.
3 This was especially painful to James, because a friend of his, a girl who was one year younger than he, was given a slot in this program ahead of him. He described himself as “astonished” that the counselor did not put him in the program immediately. ” That summer, he told us that he planned to try to get into this program at another school in the fall, but our records indicate that he did not reenroll in any of the district’s high schools. Analysis Essentially, James never recovered from his grade retentions.
13 The route he took resulted in a poor first-year grade point average, which jeopardized a later transfer to another university. ” He wanted to be successful in art, but when we last talked to him, he had no plans to get more art training. James told us that he had a sense of being adrift, of having lost something important by leaving school, but he was unable to get himself back to school. ” In Texas, tracking begins in kindergarten with the identification of “Gifted and Talented” students. 14 In the Austin Independent School District, “Gifted and Talented” students are placed in the Aim High program, a program designed to enrich their learning.