Minority Students in STEM Careers in the U.S. - the Role of AP Calculus

According to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), students who took high school calculus and expressed interest in STEM careers had the lowest attrition rate in college (U.S. Department of Education DOE], 2014). Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland indicates that students that took advanced mathematics in high school received a greater economic return over their life-time (James, 2013; Thompson, 2013).