Black-White Achievment Gap Narrows

According to a recent article in Education Week, American schools have made modest progress in closing the achievement gap between black and white students in math and reading. A recent study was released by the National Center for Education Statistics and showed that in math, the achievement gap has narrowed significantly among 9- and 13-year-olds since 1978, though it has remained statistically unchanged since 1999. In reading, the gap was statistically unchanged among 9-year-olds, but it has narrowed at age 13 since 1980






























Read the full article at Education Week, or go straight to the report by the National Center for Education Statistics.