Trajectories of Achievement Within Race/Ethnicity: "Catching Up" in Achievement Across Time

Pamela E. Davis-Kean and Justin Jager

The Journal of Educational Research, 2014, vol. 107, issue 3, 197-208

Abstract: The achievement gap has long been the focus of educational research, policy, and intervention. The authors took a new approach to examining the achievement gap by examining achievement trajectories within each racial group. To identify these trajectories they used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Cohort, which is a nationally representative sample of students in kindergarten through Grade 5. In the analyses, the authors found heterogeneity within each racial group in mathematics and reading achievement, suggesting that there are in fact achievement gaps within each race/ethnicity group. The authors also found that there are groups that catch up to the highest achieving groups by Grade 5, suggesting a positive impact of schooling on particular subgroups of children. The authors discuss the various trajectories that have been found in each racial group and the implications this has for future research on the achievement gap.

Date: 2014
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00220671.2013.807493 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:vjerxx:v:107:y:2014:i:3:p:197-208

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/vjer20

DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2013.807493

Access Statistics for this article

The Journal of Educational Research is currently edited by Mary F. Heller

More articles in The Journal of Educational Research from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().