Minority Achievement Gaps in STEM: Findings of a Longitudinal Study of Project Excite

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 20-39

  Olszewski Kubilius, Paula ^a   Steenbergen Hu, Saiying ^a   Thomson, Dana ^b   Rosen, Rhoda ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

acceleration; achievement gap; enrichment; supplementary programming; underrepresented minority

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006136708     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986216673449     Document Type: Article

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