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Baker, Rachel; Klasik, Daniel; Reardon, Sean F. – AERA Open, 2018
We measure college enrollment selectivity gaps by race-ethnicity using a novel method that is sensitive to both the level (2- vs. 4-year) and selectivity of the college in which students enroll. We find that overall Hispanic-White and Black-White enrollment selectivity gaps closed in the United States between 1986 and 2014. This overall closing of…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Ethnicity, College Attendance, Enrollment Trends
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Reardon, Sean F.; Portilla, Ximena A. – AERA Open, 2016
Academic achievement gaps between high- and low-income students born in the 1990s were much larger than between cohorts born two decades earlier. Racial/ethnic achievement gaps declined during the same period. To determine whether these two trends have continued in more recent cohorts, we examine trends in several dimensions of school readiness,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Achievement Gap, Low Income Students