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SM Flores, TJ Park, DJ Baker - The Journal of Higher Education, 2017 - Taylor & Francis

The racial college completion gap: Evidence from Texas.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program AND Program Evaluation

Baker, Park

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This analysis focuses on the college completion gap between underrepresented minority students and White students, or the Hispanic-White and Black-White racial college completion gaps, given the unprecedented demographic growth of these populations in the United States as well as the nation's public K-12 schools and postsecondary institutions. Using a variance decomposition method, we find that precollege characteristics (a combination of individual and high school context factors) contribute upward of 61% of the …

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