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“Acting White”
Education Next | Winter 2006

Harvard economist Roland Fryer is one of 22 winners of MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants this year.  An article by Fryer, “Acting White: The social price paid by the best and brightest minority students,” appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of Ed Next.  In 2004, Ed Next published an article by Fryer and Steven Levitt that examined how the black-white achievement gap grows as children move through school.