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Race, Social Class and Academic Achievement in US High Schools
By
Chandra Muller
University of Texas at Austin
Catherine Riegle-Crumb
University of Texas at Austin
Lorena Lopez Gonzalez
University of Texas at Austin
Kathryn S. Schiller
State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany)
*This research was partially funded by grants to the Population Research Center, University of
Texas at Austin from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant
number R01 HD40428-02, Chandra Muller (PI) and the National Science Foundation grant
number REC-0126167, Chandra Muller (PI). Direct all correspondence to Chandra Muller,
Population Research Center, . The authors would like to thank Ken Frank and other project
members at the University of Texas at Austin for their helpful comments on this paper.