Scores of both black and Hispanic students on some state and national tests have gone up since Mayor Bloomberg took over the Department of Education in 2002, and by some measures the “proficiency gap” ...

Wide achievement gaps divide Pennsylvania students, and school funding is a “fundamental root cause” of the disparities. That was the central argument of a former state education official during three ...

CHICAGO – On the 67th day of his 100-day rooftop vigil to build a community center, Pastor Corey Brooks discusses the controversy of the education achievement gap between white and black students and ...

Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, and Richard Rothstein, former national education columnist for the New York Times, education experts, politicians, ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Three years after the Student Opportunity Act was signed to address educational inequity, pledging $1.5 billion to the public education system by 2027, low-income and minority students ...

2009-12-14T13:10:05-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ace/290657-m.jpgRepresentative Bobby Scott hosted a forum on education policy as Congress prepared to ...

Students who score the highest on national tests have been making academic strides over the past decade while those who score at the bottom are struggling more and more. Scores were more likely to ...

According to the Nation’s Report Card released last week by the Department of Education, the achievement gap narrowed slightly in Pennsylvania over the last two years. As Pittsburgh-area schools ...

More: Community Foundation of Holland/Zeeland names Patrick Cisler new president and CEO CFHZ, through its proactive grant program, has awarded funds to West Ottawa Public Schools, Hope College’s ...

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically worsened the educational achievement gap in this country, exacerbating many of the underlying systemic problems that contribute to inequities in learning.

With classes being held online or in hybrid situations, the education achievement gap between the wealthiest school districts in Fairfield County and the poorest has grown. Although public school ...

While it has been almost 70 years since Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in United States public schools, African American children are still not ...