The Mean Is Not Enough: Using Quantile Regression to Examine Trends in Asian-White Differences Across the Entire Achievement Distribution

Teachers College Record

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1274-1295

  Konstantopoulos, Spyros ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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