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What If Coleman Had Known About Stereotype Threat? How Social-Psychological Theory Can Help Mitigate Educational Inequality
Geoffrey D. Borman, Jaymes Pyne
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2016, 2 (5) 164-185; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.08
Geoffrey D. Borman
aVilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Education Policy and Sociology and director of the Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jaymes Pyne
bAdvanced doctoral student in the Sociology Department and fellow of the ITP at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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What If Coleman Had Known About Stereotype Threat? How Social-Psychological Theory Can Help Mitigate Educational Inequality
Geoffrey D. Borman, Jaymes Pyne
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2016, 2 (5) 164-185; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.08