One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger
gains than their white peers.
Not exact matches
Maryland's public school students made greater
gains on a national standardized test
than their
peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between
white and minority students persists.
Both
white and minority children in Connecticut's magnet schools showed stronger connections to their
peers of other races
than students in their home districts, and city students made greater academic
gains than students in non-magnet city schools, Casey Cobb and a team of colleagues found in this research commissioned by the state of Connecticut.