EDUCATION TRAGEDIES
EDUCATION TRAGEDIES No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning By Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom Simon & Schuster, 352 pages, $26
IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1Few Americans today would dis- agree that people of all races
Scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress exam, which tests basic skills in core subjects, reveal that black and Hispanic high school seniors scored similarly to white and Asian eighth graders-a four-year knowledge gap. A disproportionately large number of blacks and Hispanics score below their white and Asian counterparts in every subject area, and evidence suggests efforts to narrow this gap have failed so far.
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