This version was published in 2004. An updated version is available from 2011. The “achievement gap” in education refers to the disparity in academic performance between groups of students. It is most ...

For forty years, the federal government has sought to close the "achievement gap" by increasing federal involvement in and spending on public education. But the achievement gap persists; students from ...

College graduates are more likely to be employed and pay taxes, less likely to require government services, have lower overall health-care expenditures and incarceration rates, do more volunteer work, ...

College graduates are more likely to be employed and pay taxes, less likely to require government services, have lower overall health-care expenditures and incarceration rates, do more volunteer work, ...

Washington is one important step closer to increasing educational attainment for students and workers. ESHB 2626, a bill that acknowledges and endorses the planning targets proposed by the Washington ...

skoolboy has explained, much more eloquently than I can, why achievement gaps matter even if the scores of white, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian students are all rising equally: There are a ...

Faith in the power of schools to overcome disadvantage has been shaken by the news that even good schools aren’t closing the gap between rich and poor students. The difference in attainment by ...

Ten years ago, the then first minister Nicola Sturgeon said she wanted to be judged on closing the attainment gap between Scotland's richest and poorest children. Recent figures suggest there is still ...

Charleston County School District has the widest racial achievement gap among South Carolina’s 15 largest school districts, according to data presented by the Lowcountry Conservatives Club.

A landmark SNP pledge to eliminate the poverty attainment gap between the richest and poorest Scots pupils is "in tatters" following the publication of this year's exam results, opposition parties ...

Today, in the post-Civil Rights Movement era, greater focus is finally being placed on closing the achievement gap. The achievement gap is the disparity in the education performances of the different ...