Students walk off a school bus on the first day of school Tuesday at Jason Lee Middle School. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) Work to close educational achievement gaps for several minority groups in ...

But what’s less well-known is that achievement scores had already suffered a lost decade before the pandemic hit. Across grade levels, average scores peaked around 2013 and have been falling since ...

Americas fourth and eighth grade students sliding reading scores worsened in 2024, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which has been dubbed the nations report card. The ...

The achievement gap in academic performance between academically at-risk minorities and white students has concerned educators for decades now. It's a troubling fact that Latino Americans and African ...

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 ...

Each school year, one important task on a principal’s plate is to review student-achievement data to identify trends and adjust goals. However, several common misinterpretations and misuse of such ...

For decades, white students have performed significantly better than Black and Hispanic students on tests of academic achievement. Explanations for these achievement gaps include poverty and systems ...