@gmtplus7 “The study highlights a persistent racial achievement gap even when family income is normalized. So what accounrs for the gap? Culture?”
I think that when you control for how students answer questions about those 7 items in post #43, the impacts of wealth and race will be much smaller. Not zero, but less. Clearly, there is racism, and an education-focused parent can do more with more money rather than less, however a lot of what education-focused parents do is more about what they know and do, and less about money.
@ccdd14 “educators in these schools may subliminally – or consciously in some cases – track white students into gifted courses while assigning black and Hispanic students to less rigorous courses.”
I am sure this happens. Students near the cutoff get mis-bucketed into the wrong track often in all races, and I have no doubt that it happens disproportionately to URM students. However, involved, education-focused parents are much more likely to engage with the school and work to get it fixed, if that happens to their kid.
Again, there are clearly race and wealth impacts, but the issue is much more complex.
I understand that URM and lower SES parents are at a disadvantage, but there is a lot that they can do to make their kids successful. I do not like the message these articles keep sending that if poor parents can’t afford expensive tutors or $10k summer programs, their kids are doomed to fail, so why try? Many of these families understand the effort and work involved in succeeding in sports, succeeding in academics is not much different.