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Title: Intergenerational Predictors of the Black-White Achievement Gap in Adolescence
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Mandara, Jelani Greene, Nereira Varner, Fatima |
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Intergenerational Predictors of the Black-White Achievement Gap in Adolescence Working Paper, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2006 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University Keyword(s): Birthweight; Family Structure; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Racial Differences; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Intergenerational predictors of the Black-White achievement gap among 2108 adolescents from the NLSY were examined. The results showed that the gaps in SES and achievement significantly reduced over the past few generations. Moreover, grandparents' education and occupational prestige accounted for 20% of the achievement gap, but were completely mediated by parent and adolescent factors. Parents' SES, achievement, and parenting accounted for almost all of the remaining ethnic differences in math and reading scores. Parental demandingness and adolescent health and motivation had particularly large unique effects on achievement. It was concluded that adjusting for these differences across generations would, theoretically, all but eliminate the Black-White test score gap. The need for culturally specific parenting interventions was also discussed. |
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Mandara, Jelani, Nereira Greene and Fatima Varner. "Intergenerational Predictors of the Black-White Achievement Gap in Adolescence." Working Paper, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2006. |