Did You Know?

I read this in the SunTimes.

In fourth-grade math in 2007, white Illinois students scored 32 points higher than their African-American counterparts on the 500-point national test. The national gap was only 26 points.

By eighth grade, white Illinois kids scored 38 points higher than black peers. Nationally, white eighth-graders outpaced blacks by 31 points.

Some studies have tied the black-white achievement gap to the fact that African Americans are more likely to be poor, come from single-parent homes, face less classroom rigor and have less-prepared teachers.

The graph above (taken from the New York Times) does show that the National achievement gap for 8th graders have decreased by 2 points in math and 3 points in reading -- BUT, this took 17 years!

How many more years will it take before the gap is eliminated? Do you think the gap will ever be eliminated?