Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected
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"An achievement gap separating black from white students has long been documented a social divide extremely vexing to policy makers and the target of one blast of school reform after another.
"But a new report focusing on black males suggests that the picture is even bleaker than generally known.
"Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys."
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"Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), septembre 2010. Consulté le 16/10/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/proficiency-of-black-students-is-found-to-be-far-lower-than-expected