The black-white achievement gap revisited;Revisitando la brecha en el rendimiento de estudiantes negros y blancos

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 18, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-99

  Braun, Henry ^a   Chapman, Lauren ^a   Vezzu, Sailesh ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement gap; Hierarchical analyses; Naep; Nclb; State education policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649436955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v18n21.2010     Document Type: Article

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