| Author(s): | Carpenter, D., Ramirez, A., and Severn, L |
| Title: | Gap or gaps? Challenging the singular definition of the achievement gap |
| Source: | http://eus.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/1/113.pdf... |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Organization: | Education and Urban Society |
| Short Description: | For decades, researchers examined the “achievement gap” between minority and nonminority students. This singular definition of achievement gap ignores important within-group differences. This article uses National Education
Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) data to examine within-group differences and compares those across Latino, African American, and White populations. |
| Annotation: | For decades, researchers examined the “achievement gap” between minority and nonminority students. This singular definition of achievement gap ignores important within-group differences. This article uses National Education
Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) data to examine within-group differences and compares those across Latino, African American, and White populations. Results question the singular definition of achievement gap. Given the importance
of how issues are defined, a singular definition of achievement gap may mean current policies miss the mark in raising achievement levels between and within groups. |
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