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The Black-White Test Score Gap by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Black-White Test Score Gap about?

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

Who reads The Black-White Test Score Gap?

Author

Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors

Publisher

Brookings Institution Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815746102

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Science, Social Science