Racial/Ethnic Test Score Gaps and the Urban Continuum

Autor/inn/en	Gagnon, Douglas J.; Mattingly, Marybeth J.
Titel	Racial/Ethnic Test Score Gaps and the Urban Continuum
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Rural Education, 33 (2018) 2, (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-0670
Schlagwörter	Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Scores; Achievement Gap; Urban Environment; Performance Factors; School Districts; Socioeconomic Influences; Demography; Rural Urban Differences; Academic Achievement; Predictor Variables; White Students; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; Elementary Secondary Education; Multivariate Analysis; Regression (Statistics); Statistical Analysis; Least Squares Statistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Stadtökologie; Leistungsindikator; School district; Schulbezirk; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Demografie; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Schulleistung; Prädiktor; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Multivariate Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Research is just beginning to describe with precision determinants of racial and ethnic achievement gaps. Work by Reardon, Kalogrides, and Shores found that factors such as parental income, parental education, and segregation are the strongest predictors of achievement gaps. In this study we expand this line of inquiry to examine the role of urbanicity. Given the considerable historical, cultural, economic, and educational differences between city and rural locales, there is reason to suspect that the forces which shape their achievement gaps are different as well. We examine White-Black and White-Hispanic test gaps across thousands of Local Education Agencies (LEAs), finding that rural LEAs have White-Black and White-Hispanic achievement gaps 16% and 22% smaller, respectively, than those found in city schools. Moreover, socioeconomic factors have a different relationship to gaps in more rural as opposed to more urban places. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Penn State University College of Education, Center on Rural Education and Communities. 310B Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802. Tel: 814-863-2031; Web site: http://www.jrre.psu.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01