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...thought we knew that ‘acting white’ happened in all-black schools in urban neighborhoods. I think we had the facts entirely backwards,” Fryer, who is a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, said in an interview...
...their paper, “An Empirical Analysis of ‘Acting White,’” Fryer and Torelli find that “acting white” is more pronounced in public schools and schools whose student body is less than 20 percent African American. At the same time, the phenomenon is essentially non-existent among black students in primarily black schools, as well as among black students attending private schools. Fryer noted that other factors—such as under-funding, differences in teaching quality, and disparities in parent-teacher interaction—probably...
...Fryer and Torelli found that for white teenagers better grades coincided with greater popularity, while black students who excelled in school were substantially less popular than black peers with lower grades...
...black student with a 4.0 has, on average, 1.5 fewer same-race friends than a white student with a 4.0,” Fryer and Torelli write in their paper. “A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average...
...Fryer said that the implications of these findings for public policy are not yet clear...