> A black student whose test scores were on par with a white peer was still half as likely to be assigned to a gifted classroom. ... Which would indeed be expl

> A black student whose test scores were on par with a white peer was still half as likely to be assigned to a gifted classroom. ... Which would indeed be explained by the lack of gifted program at schools (can't assign a kid to a class that doesn't exists). But there's also something the authors are omitting here: parental involvement. It's still the parent's decision to place their kid in a gifted program. And if there's no gifted program at the child's current school the parent will have to take the initiative to transfer his child to another school (and the child will probably object to it seeing as it means losing all his friends).