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The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade
Abstract
This article describes basic facts regarding the Black-White test score gap over the first four years of school. Black children enter school substantially behind their White counterparts in reading and math, but including a small number of covariates erases the gap. Over the first four years of school, however, Blacks lose substantial ground relative to other races; averaging 0.10 standard deviations per school year. By the end of third grade, there is a large Black-White test score gap that cannot be explained by observable characteristics. Blacks are falling behind in virtually all categories of skills tested, except the most basic. None of the explanations we examine, including systematic differences in school quality across races, convincingly explain the divergent academic trajectory of Black students.
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Using ECLS-K data through third grade, Fryer and Levitt show that Black students enter school behind Whites in reading and math, but with a parsimonious set of controls the initial gap is small; over the first four years of school Blacks lose substantial ground relative to Whites. By third grade a large Black-White test score gap remains that observable characteristics, school quality, teacher fixed effects, and changing test content do not convincingly explain.
Key findings
- Raw Black-White gaps widen from .663 SD in fall-kindergarten math to .882 SD by spring third grade, and from .400 SD to .771 SD in reading. With controls, the Black coefficient in math goes from -.099 SD in fall kindergarten to -.382 SD in spring third grade; in reading it goes from +.13 SD in fall kindergarten to -.282 SD in spring third grade. Blacks lose on average .10 SD per school year relative to Whites, totaling .283 SD in math and .41 SD in reading over the first four years.
- School quality becomes less convincing as an explanation when data extend through third grade. Including school fixed effects leaves two-thirds of the Black-White difference, and all ground lost between first and third grade is within rather than across schools; teacher fixed effects produce essentially unchanged results.
- By third grade, gaps appear in every skill tested in reading and math except the most basic tasks mastered by virtually all students. The largest gaps are in multiplication/division and literal inference: over 85% of White students mastered these subjects, but mastery rates are 15–20% lower for Blacks after controls.
- Hispanics gain ground relative to Whites despite worse initial conditions, while Asians’ early advantage is maintained or diminishes depending on subject; neither group shows the Black pattern of divergence.
Methods
- Data: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K), a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 children entering kindergarten in 1998, with tests in fall and spring kindergarten, spring first grade, and spring third grade; roughly 1,000 schools. Analysis samples are 11,201 observations for math and 10,540 for reading.
- Measures: standardized item response theory (IRT) math and reading scores, normalized to mean zero and SD one; controls include ECLS socioeconomic composite, number of children’s books and its square, gender, age, birth weight, mother’s age at first birth, and WIC participation.
- Analysis: weighted least squares cross-sectional regressions with race dummies; school and teacher fixed effects in Table 6; probit regressions for skill mastery in Table 8. Students missing test scores, race, or age are dropped.
Limitations
- Stated: the authors say a causal interpretation of covariate coefficients is likely inappropriate and view the variables as proxies for broader environmental and behavioral factors. They also state that explanations for Black students losing ground remain elusive, that school-quality evidence is not conclusive, and that the data cannot definitively determine whether Black students eventually master higher-order skills or never do.
- Stated: school fixed effects may also capture neighborhood effects because school assignment depends heavily on residential location, making school quality difficult to separate from neighborhood quality.
- Evident from the text: the analysis is observational and cross-sectional, uses data only through third grade, and relies on a limited set of proxies rather than direct measures of mechanisms such as parenting, peer norms, or instructional quality.
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“Any optimism, however, is tempered by the fact that by the end of first grade (the last data used in Fryer and Levitt 2004) Black students have already lost substantial ground (the equivalent of almost three months of schooling) relative to Whites.”
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Section V reports that Black students lost ground relative to White students between the start of kindergarten and the end of first grade: 0.156 standard deviations in math and 0.188 in reading after controls. Our copy does not express that loss as the equivalent of almost three months of schooling, so the claim’s magnitude in months is not supported. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Second, in stark contrast to previous studies, Fryer and Levitt (2004) are able to eliminate the black-white test score gap for incoming kindergartners with the inclusion of just a parsimonious set of controls.”
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The Conclusion states that the gap among entering kindergartners could be essentially eliminated by controlling for a small number of observable characteristics. The paper specifies that this result applies to math and reading scores; a gap persisted on its general-knowledge test. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Fryer and Levitt (2004) tested six theories to explain why black kids lost ground relative to whites between fall kindergarten and spring first grade. The only hypothesis that received any empirical backing was differences in school quality.”
- Also stated in: § V. Conclusion · p. 21 · plain
“Fryer and Levitt (2004) test a wide range of hypotheses, finding some empirical support for only one explanation: differential school quality across races.”
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The Abstract says there is suggestive evidence that school-quality differences may explain why Black children lost ground between the beginning of kindergarten and the end of first grade, while none of the other hypotheses tested received empirical backing. The section 'Are Black students losing ground because they attend worse schools?' likewise calls the school-quality evidence consistent with the explanation but not definitive proof. The claim describes empirical backing, not proof. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Including school fixed effects eliminates twothirds of the difference in the learning trajectory of blacks and whites over the first two years of school.”
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In “Are Black students losing ground because they attend worse schools?” (page not supplied), the authors report that adding school fixed effects reduces the estimated ground lost by Black students to less than one-third of its full-sample magnitude. That supports the paraphrase that fixed effects eliminate about two-thirds of the difference in test-score trajectories. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“It was shown that, relative to Whites attending the same schools, Blacks lost only a small amount of ground.”
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In “Are Black students losing ground because they attend worse schools?” (page not provided), the paper reports that when Black and White students attending the same school are compared, the estimated ground lost by Black students shrinks to less than one-third of the full-sample estimate and is not statistically different from zero. This supports the claim that they lost only a small amount of ground relative to White students at the same schools. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Both Blacks and the Whites that attended schools with Blacks lost substantial amount on tests relative to Whites at other schools.”
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In “Are Black students losing ground because they attend worse schools” (page unavailable), the paper reports that Black students lost substantial ground relative to Whites in the full sample, while their relative loss was much smaller when compared with Whites at the same schools. This is consistent with weaker test-score trajectories at schools attended by Black students, but the paper does not establish that Whites at those schools themselves lost a substantial amount relative to Whites at other schools; it treats their possible lower trajectories as an unresolved explanation. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“When we revisit this hypothesis armed with more years of data, the empirical support for school quality being the primary source of divergent Black-White test scores weakens, as shown in Table 6.”
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“When the data are extended to cover an additional two years of schooling, however, the support for even this hypothesis weakens.”
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“Children on WIC do worse on the tests, suggesting that this variable is not capturing any real benefits the program might provide, but rather, the fact that eligibility for WIC is a proxy for growing up poor that the SES variable is not adequately capturing.”
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“In stark contrast to the results on math, girls are not losing ground relative to boys in reading.”
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“Like math, however, the reading gap widens substantially to .771 standard deviations by the end of third grade.”
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“As reported in Fryer and Levitt (2004), the estimates of ground lost by Blacks shrinks to less than one-third of the magnitude in the full sample when comparing fall kindergarten and spring first grade test scores, and is not statistically different from zero in these specifications.”
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“Hispanics experience a much smaller gap relative to Whites, and it does not grow.”
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“By the spring of third grade, over 85 percent of White students have mastered these subjects, but mastery rates are 15-20 percent lower for Blacks, even after controlling for other factors.”
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“In fact, however, the residual gap increases more than the raw gap contradicting this explanation.”
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“We also observe striking losses by girls relative to boys on math - over two-tenths of a standard deviation over the four year period.”
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“In that specification, Blacks lose an average of .283 standard deviations in math and .41 in reading relative to Whites over the first four years of school.”
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“Older children, those with higher birth weights, those with older mother's at the time of first birth all score better, although the benefit of entering school at a later age decreases steadily over time.”
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“Controlling for observables, upon entry to school the gaps between Whites and Blacks tend to be small. This is true on both math and reading skills, and regardless of whether the skill is mastered by many of the students or relatively few of the students.”
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“In addition and subtraction, which is challenging for many first graders regardless of race, the Black students lag significantly in first grade, but both Blacks and Whites achieve almost complete mastery by third grade.”
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“Blacks lose substantial ground relative to whites within the same school and even in the same classrooms.”
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“The results appear to be similar across quintiles of the socio-economic status distribution and by family structure.”
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“In the raw data, Blacks lag Whites somewhat on virtually all types of questions, except those which are mastered by virtually all students of a given grade level. That is true both at entry to school, and even more so by the end of third grade.”
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“Controlling for our parsimonious specification yields a coefficient on black of -.382 in the third grade math regression and -.249 in reading.”
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“Controlling for whether or not English is spoken in the home does little to affect the initial gap or the trajectory of Hispanics.”
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“In that subject, as well as some of the basic reading skills like 'words in context,' a few percent of Blacks fail to master the material even though almost all Whites do.”
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“Hispanics in the West do not exhibit this same pattern; they remain steady versus Whites.”
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“Socio-economic status and the number of children's books in the home are important predictors of test scores at each grade level.”
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“The divergence in test scores relative to Whites is not apparent for either Hispanics or Asians.”
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“Using newly collected data on a recent cohort from the ECLS, we document substantial Black-White test score gaps in both math and reading that grow at approximately .10 standard deviations per year that children are in school.”
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“One difference is that the Black children in our sample may be somewhat less responsive to changes in socio-economic status than Whites: a one-standard deviation improvement in socio-economic status for a Black child is associated with a .192 standard deviation increase in math scores, compared to .343 for a White child, but the results are more similar on reading scores.”
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“The results presented in the table, however, are essentially unchanged when we include teacher fixed effects, so that the differences are identified off of children in the very same classroom.”
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“We also explore whether the growing racial test score gap could be attributed to the inherent difficulties in testing achievement at especially young ages, or the possibility of increasing importance of home inputs for the development of higher-order thinking, but can provide no compelling evidence confirming these hypotheses either.”
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“By the end of third grade there is a large Black-White test score gap that cannot be explained by observable characteristics.”
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“By the end of third grade, even after controlling for observables, the black-white test score gap is evident in every skill tested in reading and math except for the most basic tasks such as counting and letter recognition which virtually all students have mastered.”
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“| Baseline | -.099 | -.382 | 0.28 | 0.13 | -0.282 | 0.412 |”
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“A onestandard deviation increase in the SES variable is associated with a .30 increase in fall kindergarten math scores and a .29 increase in spring first grade math scores.”
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“The coefficient on the indicator variable black is .13 standard deviation above whites in the fall of kindergarten and .282 standard deviations below whites in the spring of third grade, or a loss of over .40 standard deviations for the typical Black child relative to the typical White.”
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“In contrast to Blacks, Hispanics gain substantial ground relative to whites, despite the fact that they are plagued with many of the social problems that exist among blacks - low socioeconomic status, inferior schools, and so on.”
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“Math | -.132 | -.27 | -.375 | -0.138 | -0.243 | -.186 | -.249 | -.366 | -0.063 | -0.180 |”
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“Reading | .094 | -.062 | -.249 | -0.156 | -0.343 | -.011 | -.067 | -.225 | -0.056 | -0.214 |”
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“Reading | .094 | -.062 | -.249 | -0.156 | -0.343 | -.011 | -.067 | -.225 | -0.056 | -0.214 |”
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“Math | -.132 | -.27 | -.375 | -0.138 | -0.243 | -.186 | -.249 | -.366 | -0.063 | -0.180 |”
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“Evaluation | ------------- | ------------- | -.015 |”
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“| Socioeconomic Status | 0.306 | 0.343 | 0.192 | 0.227 | 0.419 | 0.288 | 0.297 | 0.243 | 0.266 | 0.356 |”
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“Reading | .094 | -.062 | -.249 | -0.156 | -0.343 | -.011 | -.067 | -.225 | -0.056 | -0.214 |”
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“Math | -.132 | -.27 | -.375 | -0.138 | -0.243 | -.186 | -.249 | -.366 | -0.063 | -0.180 |”
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“Math | -.132 | -.27 | -.375 | -0.138 | -0.243 | -.186 | -.249 | -.366 | -0.063 | -0.180 |”
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“| Socioeconomic Status | 0.306 | 0.343 | 0.192 | 0.227 | 0.419 | 0.288 | 0.297 | 0.243 | 0.266 | 0.356 |”
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“Extrapolation | ------------- | ------------- | -.103 |”
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In the paper
“Literal Inference | ------------- | -.004 | -.149 |”
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✗ Load-bearing: fails✓ Based: passesProbably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The quote only partly states this claim.
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In the paper
“Add/Subtract | -.000 | -.152 | -.039 |”
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“Black | 0.13 | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | -0.282 | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |”
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“Reading | .094 | -.062 | -.249 | -0.156 | -0.343 | -.011 | -.067 | -.225 | -0.056 | -0.214 |”
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✗ Load-bearing: fails✓ Based: passesProbably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The quote only partly states this claim.
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“Multiply/Divide | ------------- | -.027 | -.179 |”
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“Math | -.132 | -.27 | -.375 | -0.138 | -0.243 | -.186 | -.249 | -.366 | -0.063 | -0.180 |”
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“Reading | .094 | -.062 | -.249 | -0.156 | -0.343 | -.011 | -.067 | -.225 | -0.056 | -0.214 |”
Strength:plain· not yet calibratedCausal:correlational· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✗ Load-bearing: fails✓ Based: passesProbably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The quote only partly states this claim.
A result the paper reports from its own data — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“| Baseline | -.099 | -.382 | 0.28 | 0.13 | -0.282 | 0.412 |”
- Also stated in: § References · p. 29 · plain
“| Black | -0.099 | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | -0.382 | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |”
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- Also stated in: § References · p. 29 · plain
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“All of our regressions and summary statistics are weighted, unless otherwise noted, and we include dummies for missing data.”
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“While the data available thus far cannot speak definitively in determining which of these scenarios is more likely, the patterns in Table 8 do raise the specter of the latter scenario being possible.”
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“Our results are not sensitive to normalizing the IRT scores to have a zero mean and standard deviation equal to one.”
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“Prior research shows black children enter kindergarten lagging their white counterparts, and these differences grow throughout the school years (Campbell, Hombo, and Mazzeo 2000, Carneiro and Heckman 2002, Coleman et. al 1966, Neal 2004, Phillips, Crouse, and Ralph 1998).”
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Campbell, Hombo, and Mazzeo 2000
- Not matchedcites Carneiro and Heckman 2002
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- Not matchedcites Neal 2004
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“It is important to stress that a causal interpretation of the coefficients on the covariates is likely to be inappropriate; we view these particular variables as proxies for a broader set of environmental and behavioral factors.”
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“None of our findings are sensitive to other choices of weights, or not weighting at all.”
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“We conclude that neither school quality nor tracking within schools is the primary explanation for black digression.”
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“To the extent that current and lagged environments are highly correlated, controlling for current inputs is likely to yield similar estimates on average of the racial test score gap, and indeed that is the case.”
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“Arguing against such a hypothesis, as Rock and Stenner (2004) note, is the fact that test scores in the fall of kindergarten are strongly predictive of test scores in spring of third grade; if the two tests are capturing very different sets of skills, this would not be expected.”
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Rock and Stenner (2004)
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“One point worth noting is that Blacks in the West are losing the great majority of this ground relative to Whites in the same classrooms, so differential school quality across races does not appear to be the answer.”
Load-bearingStrength:hedged· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passesIt may state two separate claims as one.
- The authors state this as an assumption: Children of different races are equally responsive to changes in covariates.
The authors state this as an assumption.
Children of different races are equally responsive to changes in covariates.
“The results presented in Tables 2 - 4 maintain the assumption that children of different races are equally responsive to changes in covariates.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The parsimonious set of covariates adequately captures a child's environment.
“to the extent our control variables adequately capture a child's environment, the residual gap after including all the covariates would remain constant.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The ECLS-K sample is nationally representative of children entering kindergarten in 1998.
“The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) is a nationally representative sample of 21,260 children entering kindergarten in 1998.”
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Data appendix gives an outdated count of survey points
MinorThe main text says information had been gathered at five points and includes spring third grade in its account of the full-sample interviews. The data appendix instead says four points and lists interviews only through spring first grade.
“Thus far, information on these children has been gathered at five separate points in time. The full sample was interviewed in the fall and spring of kindergarten, spring of first grade, and spring of third grade.”
“Thus far, information on these children has been gathered at four separate points in time. The full sample was interviewed in the fall and spring of kindergarten and spring of first grade.”
White ordinality mean differs between Tables 7 and 8
MinorTable 8 reports the fall-kindergarten White mean for ordinality and sequence as .349, while Table 7 reports .291 as the White mean. In Table 7, .349 is the parenthesized standard deviation.
“| | [.349] | [.970] | [.999] |”
“| Ordinality, Sequence | .291 (.349)”
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Test scores’ robustness to scaling: The scale_transformation command
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Spatial Perspective on Stratification
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Glenn, T. L. (2013) · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida)
Devising Socioeconomic Status–Based Policies for Poverty Alleviation
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Devising Socioeconomic Status–Based Policies for Poverty Alleviation
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Ong, P., & González, S. R. (2019) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316756225.007
Devising Socioeconomic Status–Based Policies for Poverty Alleviation
Abdullah, A., Siddiqui, M. Z., & Murad, M. W. (2021) · Encyclopedia of the UN sustainable development goals · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69625-6_102-2
Between-School Variability in Achievement GapsPreprint
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“Recent research by Owens (2018) and Reardon et al. (2019) indicate that neighborhood-level economic and racial segregation play a large-role in district-level achievement gaps.”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialThe Relationship of African American Language and Early Literacy Skills
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Andrews, S. M. (2013) · OpenSIUC (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Metadata
- Authors
- Fryer, R. G.
- Affiliations
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fryer, R. G.
- ORCID
- Fryer, R. G.
- Venue
- American Law and Economics Review
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2006-07-13
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 249-281
- ISSN
- 1465-7252 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-7260
- OpenAlex
- W2108478320
- Cited by
- 422
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 80.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Law and Economics Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Keywords
- Black-White test score gap, racial achievement gap, early childhood education, first grade, third grade, reading achievement, mathematics achievement, academic trajectories, school quality, Black students, educational inequality
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