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Direct linkAlvarado, Steven Elías – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
This study examines the association between college-bound friends and college enrollment using restricted transcript data from the High School Longitudinal Study. Propensity score matching and school fixed effects models suggest that having close college-bound friends is positively associated with enrolling in college. However, Black and Latino…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Peer Influence, College Attendance, High School Students
Nettles, Michael T.; Millett, Catherine M.; Ready, Douglas D. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2003
The African American-white achievement gap exists even among the youngest children; African American students arrive at kindergarten considerably behind their white peers in measurable cognitive skills. Although the gap has narrowed somewhat over the past several decades, the average African American still scores below 75 percent of white students…
Descriptors: African American Students, Study Habits, School Culture, Parent Participation
