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• Experiment with 7 th graders; ~50% white & 50% Black<br />

• Given a list of values<br />

▪ Experimental group: Choose the values that are most important to<br />

you and write why they are important<br />

▪ Control group: Choose the values that are the least important to<br />

you and explain why<br />

• End of semester – While Black students still did not do as<br />

well as whites, the Black students in the experimental<br />

group showed a 40% reduction in the racial achievement<br />

gap.<br />

• Experiment was repeated with a group of college<br />

students and yielded a 50% reduction in the racial<br />

achievement gap.<br />

Source: Cohen, Geoffrey L.., Julio Garcia, Nancy Apfel, and Allison Master. (2006). “Reducing the Racial Achievement Gap: A<br />

Social‐Psychological Intervention.” Science 313(5791): 1307‐1310,<br />

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