U.S. students in different ethnic groups have very different average scores on the PISA 2012 mathematics and reading … tests, with Blacks and Hispanics showing negative gaps relative to White students and Asians showing a positive gap. I …. Attendance at “bad” schools explains relatively little of the negative gaps, but Black students' mathematics scores are …

leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students. -- STEM majors ; minorities ; college graduation … growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student …