Persistent Gaps

09/17/2010

But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929-1968

A new report on initiatives to narrow the gap between black and white children, Achievement Gaps, explores reasons for the nation's stalled progress in closing the achievement gap between black students and their white peers....

"... while the black-white achievement gap began narrowing dramatically in the 1970s, the trend ended in the late 1980s, and the gap has persisted ever since. Factors that may contribute to the lack of progress include inadequate care in early childhood, declining communities and neighborhoods, growth in single-parent families, continuing unemployment among black males, and stagnant rates of inter-generational mobility out of seriously disadvantaged neighborhoods."

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