Culture and Stalled Progress in Narrowing the Black-White Test Score Gap

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Authors:  Meredith Phillips

Date: January 1, 2008

Project: Culture and Stalled Progress in Narrowing the Black-White Test Score Gap

Addressing the disparity in test scores between black and white children  remains one of the greatest social challenges of our time. Between the  1960s and 1980s, tremendous strides were made in closing the achievement  gap, but that remarkable progress halted abruptly in the mid 1980s, and  stagnated throughout the 1990s. How can we understand these shifting  trends and their relation to escalating economic inequality? In Steady Gains and Stalled Progress,  interdisciplinary experts present a groundbreaking analysis of the  multifaceted reasons behind the test score gap–and the policies that  hold the greatest promise for renewed progress in the future. – Amazon

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