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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S. student cohorts born between 1954 and 2001. Achievement gaps between the top and bottom quartiles of the SES distribution have been large and remarkably constant for a near half century. These unwavering gaps have not been offset by improved achievement levels, which have risen at age 14 but have remained unchanged at age 17 for the past quarter century.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12971
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Subject
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student achievement
inequality
socio-economic status
United States
NAEP
TIMSS
PISA
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hanushek, Eric A.
Peterson, Paul E.
Talpey, Laura M.
Woessmann, Ludger
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hanushek, Eric A.
- Peterson, Paul E.
- Talpey, Laura M.
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2020
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