Table 1

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Do Gatekeeper Courses Expand Education Options?

By: Robert Atanda

Table 1. -Percentage of 1992 high school graduates at each level in the math and foreign language pipelines, by selected characteristics

š High-level math refers to trigonometry, algebra 3, statistics, calculus, probability, and analytical geometry. Middle-level math refers to algebra 1 and geometry. Low-level math refers to pre-algebra and informal geometry.

˛ High-level foreign language indicates student completed at least .5 Carnegie unit of 12th-grade language. Middle-level foreign language indicates student completed at least .5 Carnegie unit of 10th-grade language. Low-level foreign language indicates student completed anything less than .5 Carnegie unit of 10th-grade language.

ł SES (F2SES1Q): low (quartile 1), middle (quartiles 2 and 3), high (quartile 4).

SOURCE: National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, base year (1988), second follow-up (1992), and transcript study.

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