What If Coleman Had Known About Stereotype Threat? How Social-Psychological Theory Can Help Mitigate Educational Inequality

The Coleman Report has inspired various lines of inquiry offering new understandings of inequality of educational opportunity and the persistent achievement gaps in American schools. Of the various models and theories, stereotype threat, which focuses on social-psychological dimensions of inequality...

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Main Authors: Geoffrey D. Borman, Jaymes Pyne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2016-09-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.08