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Composition Matters: The Relationship Between Race and School Racial Composition in Explaining the Black-White Gap |
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Although the black-white achievement gap has been narrowing, test scores are not the only source of an educational gap between black and white students. Differences between black and white students exist in opportunities to learn in the form of high school course taking. Following the institutional perspective, I argue that placement of students in advanced math courses is the result of queuing within the school. I use ELS to examine the role of race in high school course taking and find that black students’ likelihood of having taken advanced math courses depends on the racial composition of the school. The higher percent minority within a school, the higher the probability a black student will be in advanced math courses. |
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| Covay, Elizabeth. "Composition Matters: The Relationship Between Race and School Racial Composition in Explaining the Black-White Gap" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p240540_index.html> |
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| Covay, E. A. , 2008-07-31 "Composition Matters: The Relationship Between Race and School Racial Composition in Explaining the Black-White Gap" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p240540_index.html |
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Abstract: Although the black-white achievement gap has been narrowing, test scores are not the only source of an educational gap between black and white students. Differences between black and white students exist in opportunities to learn in the form of high school course taking. Following the institutional perspective, I argue that placement of students in advanced math courses is the result of queuing within the school. I use ELS to examine the role of race in high school course taking and find that black students’ likelihood of having taken advanced math courses depends on the racial composition of the school. The higher percent minority within a school, the higher the probability a black student will be in advanced math courses. |
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| COMPOSITION MATTERS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACE AND SCHOOL COMPOSITION IN EXPLAINING THE BLACK-WHITE GAP Elizabeth Covay University of Notre Dame Department of Sociology September 2008 Do Not Cite without Author’s Permission Despite over fifty years since Brown v. Board there are still racial differences in terms of test scores and course taking. This study uses the institutional perspective to explore Black-White differences in high school course taking. Schools as institutions tend to have pre-existing structures in which students are |
| value. The remaining variables were set at the mean to give a probability of the average student taking these math courses. 2 When considering the result of these predicted probabilities it is important to keep in mind that the comparison is between an average student (i.e. average SES average prior test scores etc) who is black and who is white. The comparison is not between an average black student and an average white student. Table 1 shows that average |
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