| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w29546
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 29546
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| Gifted & Talented Programs and Racial Segregation |
| Owen Thompson
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| 发表日期 | 2021-12-06
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| 出版年 | 2021
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Racial segregation can occur across educational programs or classrooms within a given school, and there has been particular concern that gifted & talented programs may reduce integration within schools. This paper evaluates the contribution of gifted & talented education to racial segregation using data on the presence and racial composition of gifted & talented programs at virtually all US elementary schools over a span of nine school years. I first show that, consistent with widespread perceptions, gifted & talented programs do disproportionately enroll white and Asian students while Black, Hispanic and Native American students are underrepresented. However, I also show that accounting for the within-school racial sorting caused by these programs has little or no effect on standard measures of overall racial segregation. This is primarily because gifted & talented programs are a small share of total enrollments and do enroll non-negligible numbers of under-represented minority students. I also estimate changes in race-specific enrollments after schools initiate or discontinue gifted & talented programs, and find no significant enrollment changes after programs are eliminated or initiated. I conclude that gifted & talented education is a quantitatively small contributor to racial segregation in US elementary schools. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Education
; Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29546
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587220
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Owen Thompson. Gifted & Talented Programs and Racial Segregation. 2021.
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