Study Reveals Grim Prospects For Racial Achievement Gap
A study of state trends on the National Assessment of Educational Progress from 1990 to 2000 underscores how challenging it may be for states to close the achievement gap between minority and nonminority students, despite a federal mandate that they do so within 12 years.
The study, "Tracking the Improvement in State Achievement Using NAEP Data," by David Grissmer and Ann Flanagan, two researchers at the Santa Monica, Calif.- based RAND Corp., was presented at a meeting in Washington last month.
The researchers found almost no state made significant gains on NAEP reading tests during those years. In mathematics, about half the 23 states for which data were available made some progress in closing the achievement gap between black and white students, the authors found, but those gains were "very small compared to...
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