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Steady Gains and Stalled Progress Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap / Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- Educational tests and measurements--Social aspects--United States.
- Educational tests and measurements.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Addressing the disparity in test scores between black and white children remains one of the greatest social challenges of our time.Between the 1960s and 1980s, tremendous strides were made in closing the achievement gap, but that remarkable progress halted abruptly in the mid 1980s, and stagnated throughout the 1990s.
- Contents:
- Inequality and black-white achievement trends in the NAEP / Katherine Magnuson, Dan T. Rosenbaum, and Jane Waldfogel
- Changes in families, schools, and the test score gap / Mark Berends and Roberto V. Peñaloza
- Income inequality and racial gaps in test scores / Mary E. Campbell, Robert Haveman, Tina Wildhagen, and Barbara L. Wolfe
- Can gaps in the quality of early environments and noncognitive skills help explain persisting black-white achievement gaps? / David Grissmer and Elizabeth Eiseman
- Segregation and the test score gap / Jacob L. Vigdor and Jens Ludwig
- The role of inequality in teacher quality / Sean P. Corcoran and William N. Evans
- Culture and stalled progress in narrowing the black-white test score gap / Meredith Phillips
- School policies and the test score gap / Helen F. Ladd
- What we've learned about stalled progress in closing the black-white achievement gap / Ronald F. Ferguson.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-374-8
- OCLC:
- 794929281
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