Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap

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Early mathematics assessment: validation of the short form of a prekindergarten and kindergarten mathematics measure (2012, background): “…and free/reduced lunch children – are exactly those for whom achievement gaps in mathematics have been observed elsewhere and for whom observed gaps have raised concern (Clements et al., 2008; Ginsburg et al., 2008; Magnuson & Waldfogel, 2008; National Center for Education Statistics, 2000).”
Inequality begins at home: The role of parenting in the diverging destinies of rich and poor children. (2015, unknown): “Family 7 income is now a better predictor of children’s success in school than race (Reardon, 2011; Magnuson & Waldfogel, 2008).”
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor (2011, background): “This is in contrast to what we know about the trends in racial-achievement gaps, particularly the black-white gap, which have received considerable scholarly and policy attention in the last decade or two (see, for example, Jencks and Phillips 1998; Magnuson and Waldfogel 2008).”
Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence. Working Papers Series. SAN11-01. (2011, background): “In the three decades after 1970, the coefficient of variation in family income increased by 40 percent (Campbell et al., 2008 percent, its highest level since 1993, and the child poverty rate had risen to 21 percent.”