Word: torelli
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African-American students in schools with high interracial contact may feel greater social pressure to sacrifice their grades in order to maintain popularity than students in predominantly African-American schools, according to a paper published last month by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. and graduate student Paul Torelli...
Fryer and Torelli also found that while African Americans are often suspected of suffering the most from “acting white,” Hispanic students often face even more social pressure to underperform in class than do black students...
...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...