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The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
Racial diversity in United States schools is the representation of different racial or ethnic groups in American schools. The institutional practice of slavery , and later segregation , in the United States prevented certain racial groups from entering the school system until midway through the 20th century, when Brown v.
100 largest school districts, by enrollment size, from the United States Department of Education (2004-05 school year) List of largest school districts from ProximityOne.com; A list of the 500 largest school districts in 2000–2001 from the National Center for Education Statistics (Department of Education)
English: Map of the United States, showing school segregation laws before the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education. Red means that segregation was required in that state. Blue states either allowed segregation in schools, but did not require it, or segregation was limited. Green states forbade segregation in schools.
The share of children ages 5 to 17 enrolled in public schools fell by almost 4 percentage points from 2012 to 2022, an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data found.
The growing emphasis on standardized tests as measures of achievement in schools is a part of the dialogue surrounding the relationship between race and education in the United States. Many studies have been done surrounding the achievement gap , or the gap in test scores between white and black students, which shrank until the mid-1980s and ...
In 1998, the year a voter-approved measure barring the use of race-conscious admissions policies for public colleges and universities in California took effect, the percentage of Black, Hispanic ...
After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, Amherst College, MIT and Washington University in St. Louis are among those that have seen their Black population decline for the class of 2028.