“Acting White” or Just Acting Rationally?

Social pressures to fit in can explain the black–white educational achievement gap

David Austen-Smith and Roland G. Fryer Jr.

April 12, 2007

Learning Curve

Kellogg professor’s breakthrough methodology links additional schooling to higher test scores

Karsten Hansen, James J. Heckman and Kathleen Mullen

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