Gifted Black Pupils Found Pressured to Underperform
Gifted black students who underperform in school may do so because of peer pressure to “act black,” according to new research published this month in the journal Urban Education .
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Correction:
An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect name for the research journal Urban Education.
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