For decades, white students have performed significantly better than Black and Hispanic students on tests of academic achievement. Explanations for these achievement gaps include poverty and systems ...

Racial and ethnic achievement gaps are already large by the time kids reach elementary school. One explanation for these achievement gaps is the greater likelihood that Black and Hispanic students ...

The gap in academic skills between white and historically disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority children exists at school entry and grows over time. Research over the last two decades has identified ...

U.S. elementary school students do not particularly benefit from being taught by teachers of the same race or ethnicity. That’s the major finding from our new study, published in Early Childhood ...

The achievement gap has long been the focus of educational research, policy, and intervention. The authors took a new approach to examining the achievement gap by examining achievement trajectories ...

(Dan Forer/Getty Images) Work to close educational achievement gaps for several minority groups ... but that more work is needed to support students of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation released its Education for All report Tuesday that addresses educational gaps between Black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian ...

Decades of institutionalized racism and inadequate funding have left California with a racial achievement gap in its schools. All of our students deserve the chance to learn and succeed, but all too ...

In advance of the April 6 Anchorage municipal election, the Anchorage Daily News asked candidates running for Anchorage School Board a series of issue questions. These include questions suggested by ...

Paul L. Morgan receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human ...