Extended Data Fig. 1: Percentage change in excellence gap from 3rd grade.
From: Measuring racial educational disparities over time amongst top achievers
This figure displays the percentage change in this difference between minority status in reaching excellence, relative to the difference in the 3rd grade. Excellence is defined as reaching the top decile on the math statewide standardized exam, MEAP for all years until 2014 and M-STEP for all years after 2014. Analysis uses our main sample, as defined in Methods, which consists of 534,122 students in total: 136,137 classified as a racial minority and 397,985 as a non-minority. Error bars reflect 95% confidence intervals around the mean.
