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Having just one Black teacher lowers the high school drop out rate for Black students, according to The National Bureau of Economic Research. They found Black students who have two Black teachers

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New York has one of the most segregated public school systems in the country.A disparities report commissioned by New York City's Young Men's Initiative foun

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Although Black and White students' academic achievement gap improved across time, 42 this gap still exists and substantial especially in urban schools. 6, 43 Recent data revealed the achievement gap between White and Black youth in reading and math remained relatively constant over the past years. 44 Additionally, the Black-White academic

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But we think it can be done. This conviction rests on three facts. First, black-white differences in academic achievement have narrowed since 1970. The National Assessment of Educational Progress

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Although the black/white achievement gap remained large, black students made progress in narrowing the distance in both reading and math with respect to whites of similar socioeconomic background. The size of the gap for African Americans in math in 8th grade in 2013 was the equivalent of scoring 50 points versus 68 for whites out of a 100

https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/may2018/achievement-gap
The achievement gap is a problem not only for African American students and their families and communities; it affects the well-being of the entire country. Researchers have found that "the persistence of the educational achievement gap imposes on the United States the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession" (McKinsey

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Students of color are suspended at disproportionately higher rates than white students and, on average, perform more poorly on standardized tests. But no peer-reviewed nationwide research has documented a link between the two disparities—until now. A new Stanford-led study finds that an increase in either the discipline gap or the academic achievement gap between Black and

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educators and governmental entities' efforts, African American students continue to lag behind Caucasian American students in all academic areas (de Brey et al., 2019; Plata et al., 2017). This disparity in achievement is observed throughout the K-12 schooling years. In 1966, James Coleman researched the reasons for the difference in academic

https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/studies/pdf/school_composition_and_the_bw_achievement_gap_2015.pdf
academic performance gap, and student achievement. • his report begins with a description of how the percentage of students in a school who were Black varies for Black students, compared with that for White students, and identiies the U.S. regions and locale types where the highest Black student density schools were located.

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district earned the reputation of being "the best school system" in the state. It was also featured in Time Magazine as well as in national papers. Black students in the district perform considerably better than other Blacks in the rest of the State and in the rest of the nation. For example, in the 1995-96 school year, Black 4th graders in the

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New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps U.S. public schools are highly segregated by both race and class. Prior research shows that the desegregation of Southern schools in the 1960s and 1970s led to significant benefits for black students, including increased educational attainment and higher earnings. We do not

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/30/arts/why-are-black-students-lagging.html
As in many racially integrated school districts, the black students have lagged behind whites in grade-point averages, test scores and placement in high-level classes. Professor Ogbu was invited

https://theconversation.com/the-term-achievement-gap-fosters-a-negative-view-of-black-students-189942
Furthermore, the term "achievement gap" had a larger negative effect among teachers who hold stronger anti-Black or pro-white implicit stereotypes, as measured by an . The term also led

https://time.com/5876164/black-teachers/
The best contemporary research reinforces what historical anecdotes reveal. Black teachers today are, by nearly every metric, more successful at supporting the achievement and well-being of Black

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/have-we-made-progress-on-achievement-gaps-looking-at-evidence-from-the-new-naep-results/
Examining these figures, we see that a large majority of states have made progress on closing race- or ethnicity-based achievement gaps. This is particularly true for white-Hispanic gaps, with 13

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Schools can be structured in ways that afford Black students with opportunities to establish a sense of belonging. When schools invest in innovative approaches that prioritize Black students' experiences, cultural strengths, and citizenship practices, then those students view schools as places where they matter. Some examples follow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/nyregion/study-black-white-achievement-gap-schools.html
Students must be in the same classrooms, have the same quality of teachers and be disciplined in the same way. "This is the way we need to start talking about integration," she said. The study

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_unequal_discipline_hurts_black_students
The researchers found that a 10 percentage point increase in the black-white discipline gap in a school district predicts an achievement gap that is 17 percent larger than the average black-white achievement gap. "As the racial discipline gap goes up, so too does the racial achievement gap," Pearman said. "Likewise, as the racial

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-4357-1_4
Virginia's achievement gap in grade-4 reading is 7 points smaller than the nationwide gap, and in grade 8, the gap is six points smaller. Virginia is one of 13 states where fourth-grade reading achievement is higher for both Black and White students than it was in 1992, the first year of NAEP reading tests in grade 4.

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closing the achievement disparity gap for minority children are challenging. This generic qualitative study examined the motivations of high-achieving African American high school students to persevere and achieve academic success despite their personal and circumstantial challenges. Social cognitive theory framed the study. Semistructured

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"As the racial discipline gap goes up, so too does the racial achievement gap," Pearman said. "Likewise, as the racial discipline gap goes down, so too does the racial achievement gap." An increase in the achievement gap between Black and white students also predicts a larger-than-average discipline gap, the researchers found.

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Notes: Table shows estimated achievement gaps in standard deviations for each racial and ethnic group relative to white students.Standard deviation units are based on the standard deviation across all students for a given test-grade-year combination. The Asian category is comprised of Asian-origin students who are proficient in oral English at the beginning of kindergarten.

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Understanding The Achievement Gap The black-white achievement gap exists quantitatively at every measurable level of student progress. Black and white children experience gaps in shape recognition skills at age four, before they enter public schools.12 A gap in mathematics and reading test scores between blacks and whites grows from

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Attendance among Hispanic students also took a bigger hit than it did among other student populations: Hispanic students were absent 6.4 percent more days following a school closure, compared with