Given this currently unavoidable problem, I remain agnostic on whether the black - white gap changes very much one way or the other as children progress through school. (educationnext.org)
Unfortunately, this gap does not narrow as children progress through school, leading to very poor social mobility. (thenferblog.org)
Schools became assembly lines, with children progressing from one grade to the next based on time spent in a classroom, the simplest way for adults to measure progress. (educationnext.org)