Introduction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-29

  Magnuson, Katherine ^a   Waldfogel, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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