This journal article is an experiment conducted on third grade students to see how race an gender affect test scores. The author used the California Achievement Test to prove Grant and Sleeter's conclusion that race and gender cannot be separated when looking at how academia is impacted. 107 test scores were picked at random, 20 were black males, 20 black females, 28 white males, and 39 white females. Over all, the study concluded that "females and whites outperform males and blacks in all 11 academic areas" (Scott p.629). While this article is somewhat outdated, I plan to use it to show how the East End of Lexington has been dealing with the issue of race and academic performance for decades now.
Source:
Scott, Ralph. "Gender and Race Achievement Profiles of Black and White Third-Grade Students." Journal of Psychology 121.6 (1987): 629-34. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Oct. 2015. <http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uky.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=d243f57b-3e96-43f2-8c2f-25af14e8c730%40sessionmgr4005&hid=4105&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=5370720&db=a9h>
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