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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Racial Gap"”.
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Advanced Placement Classes and Its Racial Gap – Teachers’ Beliefs and Perceptions
<p>This mixed-methods study focused on teachers’ beliefs about Advanced Placement (AP) equity and access policies within the ABC School District in Middle Georgia. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the beliefs held by AP teachers regarding the implementation of …
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Is there a Racial Gap in Market Facilitation Program Payments and Total Government Payments?
… no existing analysis explains the source of the racial gap. In this thesis, I conducted two sets of analysis using the micro-level Census of Agriculture data from 2017 to provide new insights on the racial gap. The first analysis examined the amount of payment from the 2018 Market Facilitation …
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Three essays on gun violence in the United States
… same areas as before. Second, I find that the racial gap in shooting homicides has increased since 1985. This gap peaked in 2020, when Black men were ten times more likely to be shot than White men, with an estimated number of 10,717 excessive deaths among the Black population in 2020 …
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Three essays on wage inequality and health insurance coverage
… much smaller. In the final chapter I examine the racial gap in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage as well as how the recent hike in insurance premium affects employer offering as well as employee enrollment in the health insurance plan. The black-white insurance coverage gap is trivial …
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Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island
… familiar to postwar inner cities. While urban racial inequality is often framed in terms of housing segregation and the city/suburb divide, census and labor market data reveal that structural economic change across the New York metropolitan region produced the racial gap and intra-racial class …
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Measuring Academic Outcomes of Equity and Racial Equity Policies in Public Schools
The achievement gaps among different racial and socioeconomic groups have been a dilemma for K-12 educators for decades. Although complex and insolvable the issues seemed, the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) gave a momentum to creating equity and racial equity policies that addressed academic …
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Essays on Inequality in Cities
… construction during the 1960s increased racial inequality in American cities. As a mechanism for why these disparities arise, I explore the central role of exclusionary institutions that limited access to residential neighborhoods for minority families and how they shape the …