| Description |
1 online resource (535 pages) |
| Contents |
""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1. The Black-White Test Score Gap: An Introduction""; ""Part I: Test Bias, Heredity, and Home Environment""; ""2. Racial Bias in Testing""; ""3. Race, Genetics, and IQ""; ""4. Family Background, Parenting Practices, and the Black-White Test Score Gap""; ""Part II: How and Why the Gap Has Changed""; ""5. Black-White Test Score Convergence since 1965""; ""6. Why Did the Black-White Score Gap Narrow in the 1970s and 1980s?""; ""Part III: The Impact of Schools and Culture"" |
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""7. Does the Black-White Test Score Gap Widen after Children Enter School?""""8. Teachers' Perceptions and Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap""; ""9. Can Schools Narrow the Black-White Test Score Gap?""; ""10. The Burden of ""Acting White"": Do Black Adolescent Disparage Academic Achievement?""; ""11. Stereotype Threat and the Test Performance of Academically Successful African Americans""; ""Part IV: Do Test Scores Matter?""; ""12. Racial and Ethnic Preferences in College Admissions"" |
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""13. Scholastic Aptitude Test Scores, Race, and Academic Performance in Selective Colleges and Universities""""14. Basic Skills and the Black-White Earnings Gap""; ""Part V: Commentary""; ""15. The Role of the Environment in the Black-White Test Score Gap""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Annotation The test score gap between blacks and whites--on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence--is large enough to have far-reaching social and economic consequences. In their introduction to this book, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips argue that eliminating the disparity would dramatically reduce economic and educational inequality between blacks and whites. Indeed, they think that closing the gap would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy now under serious discussion. The book offers a comprehensive look at the factors that contribute to the test score gap and discusses options for substantially reducing it. Although significant attempts have been made over the past three decades to shrink the test score gap, including increased funding for predominantly black schools, desegregation of southern schools, and programs to alleviate poverty, the median black American still scores below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests. The book brings together recent evidence on some of the most controversial and puzzling aspects of the test score debate, including the role of test bias, heredity, and family background. It also looks at how and why the gap has changed over the past generation, reviews the educational, psychological, and cultural explanations for the gap, and analyzes its educational and economic consequences. The authors demonstrate that traditional explanations account for only a small part of the black-white test score gap. They argue that this is partly because traditional explanations have put too much emphasis on racial disparities in economic resources, both inhomes and in schools, and on demographic factors like family structure. They say that successful theories will put more emphasis on psychological and cultural factors, such as the way black and white parents teach their chi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Discrimination in education -- United States
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Educational tests and measurements -- United States.
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Test bias -- United States
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Discrimination in education
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Educational tests and measurements
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Test bias
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Phillips, Meredith
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| LC no. |
98025316 |
| ISBN |
9780815746119 |
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0815746113 |
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9780815746102 |
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0815746105 |
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1441636382 |
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9781441636386 |
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