Some Calif. Achievement Gaps Are Widening, Study Finds
After seven years of a school accountability program, achievement gaps in California’s schools are widening in some grades, according to a recent assessment of the state education system.
Conducted by Policy Analysis for California Education, or PACE, a think tank based at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, the study shows, for example, that the share of 8th graders from middle-class families proficient in English language arts in 2003 was 28 percentage points higher than the share of English-proficient students from low-income families. This year, the gap has grown to 33 percentage points.
Bruce Fuller, an education professor at Berkeley and a contributor to the study, said the state lacks a unified approach...
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