Check out THIS NY Times article that reveals that the achievement gap between black & white students is still a significant problem. A recent study resulted in the following startling findings:
Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys
Only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys.
Poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in poverty
In high school, African-American boys drop out at nearly twice the rate of white boys, and their SAT scores are on average 104 points lower.
Math scores in 2009 for black boys were not much different than those for black girls in Grades 4 and 8, but black boys lagged behind Hispanics of both sexes, and they fell behind white boys by at least 30 points, a gap sometimes interpreted as three academic grades.
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