Signs that fewer black students are taking calculus in high school
New U.S. high school transcript data show stark and growing racial differences in which students progress to the most advanced math subject in high school: calculus. It appears from this first release of data that, among black students who started high school in 2009, a slightly smaller proportion took a calculus class than four years earlier. And even in the earlier cohort, only about 6 percent of black high school graduates took calculus.
Meanwhile, growing numbers of Asians, whites and Hispanics are taking the subject.
