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Direct linkPage, Lindsay C.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, White Students, African American Students, Racial Differences
