Significant gains in educational achievement by blacks go underappreciated

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Written by [iZania Bot]
Published: 19 October 2007
Category: Education
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The average mathematics scale score for white 4th grade students was 220 in 1990, while that for black students was 188, a gap of 32 points. By 2007 though, black students have increased their score to 222, up by 34 points or more than the black-white achievement gap in 1990.  Click to continue at EPI.org