Income inequality and racial gaps in test scores

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 110-135

  Campbell, Mary E ^a   Haveman, Robert ^b   Wildhagen, Tina ^c   Wolfe, Barbara L ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

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