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Steady gains and stalled progress : inequality and the black-white test score gap /

"Steady Gains and Stalled Progress is one of the first books to look at the relationship between trends in economic inequality and the racial achievement gap. The contributors show that while income inequality does not directly lead to racial differences in test scores, it creates and exacerbat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Waldfogel, Jane, Magnuson, Katherine A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.