ACHIEVEMENT: Best Coverage Of The Black-White Gap Report

Best lines and stats from the achievement gap report coverage: 

Black-white education gap persists AP
On average, the gap narrowed by about 7 points from 1992 to 2007, so that black students scored about 28 points behind white students on a 500-point scale.

Regional Shift Seen in Education Gap NYT
The nation’s widest black-white gaps are no longer seen in Southern states like Alabama or Mississippi, but rather in Northern and Midwestern states like Connecticut, Illinois, Nebraska and Wisconsin, according to the federal data.

Gap Students Smaller in Va. Than Md. Washington Post
In the District, black fourth-graders trailed their white peers by 54 points in math and 67 points in reading in 2007.

Black students gain on tests, fail to close gap SF Chronicle Black fourth-graders in West Virginia, for example, scored just 14 points below their white peers. But as was the case in other states, the small gap relied upon a below-average performance from the white students rather than high achievement among black students.

Generally a good job keeping the demagogues and opportunists out of there, newspeople, in addition to making reasonably nuanced points and talking to real-world folks. 

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