British Columbia: Sorting, Peers, And Achievement Of Aboriginal Students In British Columbia

British Columbia: Sorting, Peers, And Achievement Of Aboriginal Students In British Columbia   Jane Friesen, and Brian Krauth, 2012   We examine the contribution of differences in school environments to the gap in education outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students. We find both substantial school-level segregation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students and a substantial gap in test scores. Conventional achievement gap decompositions attribute roughly half of the...

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