NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — In America, we say that everyone is created equal, but when it comes to children, they aren't getting equal opportunities, according to experts. "Here I am, you know, 30-some ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — A Lynchburg City Schools education advocate, who has spent years investigating the achievement gap among black and white students in LCS and was appointed to a committee to ...

As part of this editorial board’s ongoing election coverage and endorsement process, we reached out to candidates for state ...

For years, Wisconsin has held a troubling distinction in American education: the largest racial achievement gap in the nation ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s not necessarily a competition between boys and girls when it comes to reading, but if it were a competition, girls would win. For the 2023-2024 school year, Florida’s ...

Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a multi-part series about the Santa Monica-Malibu school district’s achievement gap. Sandra Lyon watched with joy Thursday evening as elementary school ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Inserting brief quiz questions into an online lecture can boost learning and may reduce racial achievement gaps, even when students are ...

Ronald Ferguson is a Harvard professor who has spent years visiting racially mixed public high schools. Part of what he does is academic, measuring the causes of the achievement gap in America’s ...

The story of the achievement gap in Ann Arbor Public Schools has mostly been a dismal one. Years of data made it clear that black and poor students were falling behind their white and more well-to-do ...

Ah, the achievement gap. So much trouble to fix, so why bother trying? That seems to be the attitude in Washington, where pundits have spent the last several months ripping the current focus on ...