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The term ‘achievement gap’ fosters a negative view of Black students

The term ‘achievement gap’ fosters a negative view of Black students

Despite long-standing efforts to close the racial “achievement gap” in education, the term does more to trigger racist stereotypes and causes a lower sense of urgency than when the issue is presented as the need to “end inequality in educational outcomes.” Those are the key findings of a new study in which we examined the effect that the […]…