Attacking the African American-White Achievement Gap on College Admissions Tests

What is it about?

This paper investigates the African American–white achievement gap on the SAT at both the student and school level. Even though the achievement gap has been a long-term concern to educational policymakers and researchers, research that applies the appropriate methodology to investigate the influence of both student and school characteristics upon the gap is sparse.

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Why is it important?

We need to learn more about how to close the gap in performance on college admissions tests.