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Mandara, Jelani Greene, Nereira Varner, Fatima |
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Intergenerational Predictors of the Black-White Achievement Gap in Adolescence Presented: Cambridge, MA, Achievement Gap Initiative Conference, Harvard University, June 2006. Also: http://agi.harvard.edu/events/download.php?id=41 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Keyword(s): Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Ethnic Differences; Grandparents; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parenthood; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) 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." Presented: Cambridge, MA, Achievement Gap Initiative Conference, Harvard University, June 2006. |