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<p>Understanding the causes of the racial achievement gap in American education—and then addressing it with effective programs—is one of the most urgent problems communities and educators face.<br><br>For many years, the most popular explanation for the achievement gap has been the “oppositional culture theory”: the idea that black students underperform in secondary schools because of a group culture that devalues learning and sees academic effort as “acting white.” Despite lack of evidence for
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- Author
- Angel L. Harris
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674057722
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Education, Science, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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