Inequality and black-white achievement trends in the NAEP

Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and The Black-White Test Score Gap

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-65

  Magnuson, Katherine ^a   Rosenbaum, Dan T ^b   Waldfogel, Jane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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