This study estimates racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan
areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using
new data based on the results of roughly 200 million standardized math
and reading tests administered to elementary and middle school students
from 2009-2012.
The authors find substantial geographic variation in the magnitude of achievement gaps, ranging from nearly 0 in some places to larger than 1.2 standard deviations in others. A vector of economic, demographic, segregation and schooling characteristics variables explains roughly three-quarters of the geographic variation in these gaps. The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are racial/ethnic differences in parental income, parental education, and racial/ethnic segregation.
Nonetheless, even after adjusting for racial socioeconomic inequality and segregation, many school districts and metropolitan areas have larger or smaller achievement gaps than predicted, suggesting that other forces are at work as well.
The authors find substantial geographic variation in the magnitude of achievement gaps, ranging from nearly 0 in some places to larger than 1.2 standard deviations in others. A vector of economic, demographic, segregation and schooling characteristics variables explains roughly three-quarters of the geographic variation in these gaps. The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are racial/ethnic differences in parental income, parental education, and racial/ethnic segregation.
Nonetheless, even after adjusting for racial socioeconomic inequality and segregation, many school districts and metropolitan areas have larger or smaller achievement gaps than predicted, suggesting that other forces are at work as well.
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