Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gap Trends: Reversing the Progress Toward Equity?
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In light of these trends, this article offers an in-depth exploration of racial and ethnic achievement gap trends and a preliminary examination of different factors that may interact to influence the trends. It offers a comprehensive review of available data on the Black-White and Hispanic-White achievement gaps in reading and mathematics over the last three decades. The achievement gap is measured by national average test-score differences between racial and ethnic groups based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and SAT results. (See Appendix for descriptions of the variables and data sources.) The central research question is why the Black-White and Hispanic-White achievement gaps narrowed in the 1970s and 1980s but then stabilized or widened in the 1990s. This study does not seek to identify a single cause for the bifurcated trends but instead attempts to explore multiple influences by examining covariations in racial and ethnic gap patterns across several large data sets.
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