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Thursday, January 5, 2006
The black-white test score gap
How hard is it to close the achievement gap between white and black students?
Real hard.
A newsletter by Richard Colvin of the Hechinger Institute for Education and the Media pointed me to a fascinating column from a couple weeks ago by Michael Winetrip in the New York Times about how they attacked the achievement gap in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights.
The column is a must read. It demonstrates that even with fairly affluent families and other advantages, its takes a monumental effort to make any dent in the gap.
Give it a read and then post your thoughts here about what the lessons are for other schools struggling with this problem.
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