Closing the Racial Achievement Gap

On Point, Tom Ashbrook:

By 2014, just eight years from now, the No Child Left Behind Act mandates that there be no racial achievement gap in American education -- none. All children -- black, white, Hispanic, Asian -- will be performing on the same bell curve of test scores.

It's a tough deadline and a beautiful idea. Trouble is, despite Bush administration claims, most studies show it is not happening.

Test score gaps show up in kindergarten, and just get worse, except where they don't. There are trend-bucking success stories in this country - remarkable schools where that gap is being closed, child by child.

This hour On Point: we talk with three principals in the trenches who have made it happen in the war on America's education achievement gap.

Posted by Jill Jokela at November 30, 2006 5:15 PM
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