A Diagnostic Analysis of Black-White GPA Disparities in Shaker Heights, Ohio

By Ronald F. Ferguson. 2001

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We know, how Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know? (2003, unknown): “For interesting examples of the sorts of issues that can be addressed, see Ainsworth-Darnell and Downey (1998), Ferguson (2001), Farkas, Lleras, and Maczuga (2002), Downey and Ainsworth-Darnell (2002), and Bishop et al. (2003).”
Tracking, Students' Effort, and Academic Achievement (2005, unknown): “…has found that whites exert more effort than do blacks.3 However, studies that have examined students’ reports of effort have found that black students and white students generally do not differ in the effort they exert in school (Cook and Ludwig 1998; Ferguson 2001; Marks 2000; Smerdon 1999).”
Learning to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice: Negotiating Social Justice and Mathematical Goals (2013, background): “For example, differences in students’ opportunities to learn mathematics in prior schooling experiences (Ferguson, 2001) play a role in GPA disparity.”
“They Think Minority Means Lesser Than” (2013, background): “Relatively few studies have seriously examined the educational experiences of Black middle-class students in general (Allen, 2010b; Ascher & BranchSmith, 2005; Ferguson, 2001; Hemmings, 1996; Horvat & Antonio, 1999; Lareau & Horvat, 1999; Ogbu, 2003; Tyson, 2002).”
Peer Support for African American Male College Achievement: Beyond Internalized Racism and the Burden of “Acting White” (2006, background): “Others have referred to this phenomenon as “oppositional peer culture” (Ainsworth-Darnell & Downey, 1998; Ferguson, 2001).”
The Black-White Test Score Gap through Third Grade. NBER Working Paper No. 11049. (2006, background): “Even in affluent neighborhoods, achievement gaps are startling (Ferguson 2001, 2002 and Ogbu 2003).”
New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement (2009, background): “…perspectives and empirical approaches and reaching different conclusions, can be found in Fordham and Ogbu (1986), Cook and Ludwig (1997), Ainsworth-Darnell and Downey (1998), Ferguson (1998a, 2001), Steele and Aronson (1998), McWhorter (2000), Bishop et al. (2001), and Hanushek and Rivkin (2009).”