In a NEW Minn-LInK brief, research at the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity highlights the link between school segregation and racial achievement gaps for low-income students.
Across racial groups, test proficiency scores for low-income
students tended to increase as the percentage of low-income students in a
school declined. Overall proficiency gaps between low-income White and Black or
Hispanic students are closely related to differences in their enrollment
distributions and testing results in low- and high-income schools. In other
words, racial achievement gaps between these students appear to be compounded by the
fact that racial segregation concentrates minority students into high-poverty
schools.
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