[Marxism] "Racism-free society": Achievement gap still splits white, black students

Michael Friedman lycophidion at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 04:23:18 MDT 2009


Yeah, right: "unprecedented efforts"... An apartheid education system
will produce.. apartheid. And this, of course will be used by Obama to
promote Charter schools.

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Achievement gap still splits white, black students
By LIBBY QUAID, AP Education Writer Libby Quaid, Ap Education Writer
Tue Jul 14, 10:40 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority
achievement in the past decade, the gap between black and white
students remains frustratingly wide, according to an Education
Department report released Tuesday.

There is good news in the report: Reading and math scores are
improving for black students in public schools across the country. But
because white students are also improving, the disparity between
blacks and whites has lessened only slightly.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_re_us/us_black_white_achievement/print



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