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The American School Dilemma: Race and Scholastic Performance

  • Students show weaker achievements in schools with greater proportions of minority students and the African American students are primarily the ones who show this weaker achievement.
  • Race remains the strongest predictor of school performance.
  • The negative association of minority race with test scores is greatest in predominantly Black schools.
  • Evidence suggest that Black students in White schools do better than Black students in racially mixed or in predominantly Black schools.
  • Ogbu view fit: African American Students have developed social relations that help them adapt to the psychological stress of a racially unequal society, rather than to achieve upward mobility. Oppositional Identiy.
  • Residential social isolation, rather than social isolation in schools, may account for the comparatively weak performance of students in minority concentration schools.
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