Report Highlights Achievement Gap

From Minnpost.com...

A new national report draws attention yet again to the wide divide between blacks and whites in school achievement, this time spotlighting the difference in high school graduation rates for black males versus white males here and around the country.

"Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males" goes so far as to charge that American schools and communities are "systematically failing black males,'' though there are bright exceptions.

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After you get a sense of the challenge, read the memo from Don Fraser about the lessons we've learned from three years of work on the Achievement Gap committee.