LEADER 03205cam 22004457a 4500001 ssj0001326552 003 WaSeSS 005 20240412080346.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 060524s2006 mau sb 000 0 eng d 010 2006619214 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0001326552 040 DLC |cDLC |dWaSeSS 049 EREENEHH 050 00 HB1 100 1 Clotfelter, Charles T. |=^A157130 245 14 The academic achievement gap in grades 3 to 8 |h[electronic resource] / |cCharles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor. 260 Cambridge, MA : |bNational Bureau of Economic Research, 490 1 NBER working paper series ; |vworking paper 12207 500 Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/24/2006. 504 Includes bibliographical references. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 3 "Using data for North Carolina public school students in grades 3 to 8, we examine achievement gaps between white students and students from other racial and ethnic groups. We focus on successive cohorts of students who stay in the state's public schools for all six years, and study both differences in means and in quantiles. Our results on achievement gaps between black and white students are consistent with those from other longitudinal studies: the gaps are sizable, are robust to controls for measures of socioeconomic status, and show no monotonic trend between 3rd and 8th grade. In contrast, both Hispanic and Asian students tend to gain on whites as they progress through these grades. Looking beyond simple mean differences, we find that the racial gaps between low-performing students have tended to shrink as students progress through school, while racial gaps between high-performing students have widened. Racial gaps differ widely across geographic areas within the state; very few of the districts or groups of districts that we examined have managed simultaneously to close the black-white gap and raise the relative test scores of black students"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site. 530 Also available in print. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 700 1 Ladd, Helen F. |=^A133028 700 1 Vigdor, Jacob L. |=^A1217401 710 2 National Bureau of Economic Research. |=^A186 830 0 Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ; |vworking paper no. 12207. |?UNAUTHORIZED 856 40 |zFull text available from NBER Working Papers |uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.3386%2Fw12207 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 6161245