Migration background and educational tracking
Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages documents substantial immigrant-native achievement gaps in standardized student assessments. Exploiting data from the German [Progress in International Reading Literacy Study] PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants also receive worse grades and teacher recommendations for secondary school tracks than natives, which cannot be explained by differences in student achievement tests and general intelligence. Second-generation immigrants' less favorable socioeconomic background largely accounts for this additional disadvantage, su ... Show more
Authors: Ludemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido
Published: Heidelberg, Germany, Springer Verlag, 2013
Resource type: Article
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