Trends in the Black-white Achievement Gap
Author | : Lindsay C. Page |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : PSU:000063329933 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Trends in the Black-white Achievement Gap written by Lindsay C. Page and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We decompose black-white achievement gap trends between 1971 and 2004 into trends in within- and between-school differences. We show that the previous finding that narrowing within-school inequality explains most of the decline in the black-white achievement gap between 1971 and 1988 is sensitive to methodology. Employing a more detailed partition of achievement differences, we estimate that 40 percent of the narrowing of the gap through the 1970s and 1980s is attributable to the narrowing of within-school differences between black and white students. Further, the consequences for achievement of attending a high minority school became increasingly deleterious between 1971 and 1999.