The Racial Achievement Gap Refuses to Close

Last time, I focused on the education gap that exists between our U.S. students and the international community. Our education system continues to flounder in comparison to the rest of the world. Even worse, within the United States, we continue to have a racial achievement gap that resists despite all efforts to address it. With more than half of all students now being non-white, according to The Atlantic, the racial achievement gap becomes an even greater factor. We have worked tirelessly in government and education to narrow the achievement gap between the races since the 1970s. Some progress was made […]