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The Black-white Test Score Gap

By - Jencks, Christopher
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., ©1998
ISBN 10 - 0815746095
ISBN 13 - 9780815746096
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Test bias
Shelf No - 20
common.call_no - 371.2601 JEN
common.physical_description - x, 523 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes - Include Index
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Finally, they call for large-scale experiments to determine the effects of schools' racial mix, class size, ability grouping, and other policies. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Claude Steele, Ronald Ferguson, William G. Bowen, Philip Cook, and William Julius Wilson. Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the author of The Homeless (Harvard, 1994) and Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (Harperperennial, 1993), and the coeditor of The Urban Underclass (Brookings, 1991). Meredith Phillips is assistant professor of policy studies at UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Research.

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