Friend Effects and Racial Disparities in Academic Achievement

Racial disparities in achievement are a persistent fact of the US educational system. An often cited but rarely directly studied explanation for these disparities is that adolescents from different racial and ethnic backgrounds are exposed to different peers and have different friends. In this artic...

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Main Author: Jennifer Flashman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2014-07-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/download/volume%201/july/SocSci_v1_260to276.pdf