EdWeek: Growing an Achievement Gap

Gerry Bracey

The Bush administration has claimed lately that rising test scores and a narrowing black-white test-score gap reflect the success of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Even if this is true—and it is not at all clear that it is—the achievement gap, broadly conceived, is growing. Let me explain.

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