High School Quality and Race Differences in College Achievement
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This paper uses 10 years of enrollment data at three Texas public universities to examine whether, to what extent, and in what ways racial and ethnic differences in college achievement can be traced to high school attended. To identify school attributes responsible for unequal college readiness, we estimate fixed effects models for three high school strata defined by the socioeconomic composition of the student body. We find that high school affluence does not insulate minority students from achievement disparities vis-à-vis their same school classmates beyond the first semester. Furthermore, high school influences on academic achievement carry over through the college career, but only at institutions with selective admissions. Acknowledgments This research was supported by grants from the Ford, Mellon and Hewlett Foundations and NSF (GRANT # SES-0350990). We gratefully acknowledge institutional support from Princeton University's Office of Population Research (NICHD Grant # R24 H0047879). An earlier version was presented at the 2009 annual meetings of the Association for Public Policy and Management, Washington D.C.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011