ERIC Number: EJ1472687
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 22
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Ethnic/Racial Differences in Reading College Readiness: A Texas Pre- and Post-Pandemic Analysis
Neil A. Laminack; John R. Slate; Janene W. Hemmen
School Leadership Review, v20 n1 Article 5 2025
In this statewide multiyear investigation, the extent to which differences were present on the STAAR English I End-of-Course exam for Texas high school students as a function of their ethnicity/race (i.e., Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White) for the 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school years were examined. Archival data from the Public Education Information Management System were obtained for the two school years pre-pandemic (2017-2018 and 2018-2019) and the three years post-pandemic (2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023). Across all five school years and on all three grade-level standards, Approaches, Meets, and Masters, Asian students met the standards at the highest percentage, followed by White, Hispanic, and Black students. Across all five school years and on all three grade-level standards Black students lagged closely behind, never more than five percentage points, Hispanic students. Hispanic students were the only student group to consistently increase their percentage of meeting the grade-level standard across all five school years on all three standards.
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Ethnicity, College Readiness, Minority Group Students, High School Students, State Standards, Academic Achievement, Asian American Students, White Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administration. Web site: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/slr/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR)
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