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Hanover review: Sequoiastreamlining widened access but gaps remain for disadvantaged students
Summary
An independent Hanover Research review presented to the Sequoia Union High School District finds that consolidating honors and prep courses increased access to higher-level coursework across several high schools, but disparities for socioeconomically disadvantaged students persist and the study cannot establish causation.
Hanover Research told the Sequoia Union High School District board on Dec. 18 that the districtstreamlining of ninth- and lower-level courses generally increased enrollment in higher-level classes and, in many cases, maintained or improved grades and AP/IB pass rates, while continuing to show persistent participation gaps for socioeconomically disadvantaged (SED) students.
The senior director who led the analysis, Matt Rigoni of Hanover Research, told trustees the project replicated the districtprevious 2023 descriptive study using an extra year of data and independent methods. "We do not find that these changes created less opportunity," Rigoni said. He cautioned the analysis is descriptive: "We can't necessarily explain why it is happening," and recommended further methods (propensity-score matching, regression analyses) and qualitative work to probe causes and local context.
Why it matters: the districtstreamlining policy merged parallel tracks and removed some honors-specific sections in favor of heterogeneous or…
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