Black-white education gap is worsened by unresponsive state policymakers, study shows

"State policymakers' attention to teacher quality—an issue education research shows is essential to improving schooling outcomes for racial minority students—is highly responsive to low graduation rates among white students, but not to low graduation rates among black students, according to a Baylor University study.

"The findings are evidence that "the persisting achievement gap between white and black students has distinctively political foundations," the researchers wrote...."

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-black-white-gap-worsened-unresponsive-state.html

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