Wising Up on the Black-White Achievement Gap
Phi Delta Kappan
ED120403
$2.95
The fiftieth anniversary of
the U.S. Supreme Court’s
school desegregation order
in Brown v. Board of Education has
intensified public awareness of the
persistent gap in academic
achievement between black students
and white students. The
black-white gap is made up partly
of the difference between the
achievement of all lower-class students
and that of middle-class students, but there is an additional
gap between black students and
white students—even when the
blacks and whites come from families
with similar incomes.
This item is categorized under: Disadvantaged/Minorities
