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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
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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

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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
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  • stereotype threat
  • black-white achievement gap
  • educational inequality

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