posted on November 23, 2010 19:20
A new report released by the Council of the Great City Schools, an urban education advocacy group, has found that African-American boys are achieving proficiency at far lower rates than their white cohort, and that this disparity cannot be blamed on income level alone. The report examined students' scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress reading and mathematics tests, and found black male students are scoring as much as 30 points lower than white students, the equivalent of three academic grades. The Council has released this report, titled "A Call for Change," with the hopes that it will create "a new sense of national urgency" around this issue.
Click here to read the New York Times article announcing the report.
Published by Trip Gabriel for the New York TImes on November 9th, 2010.