Achievement gap slow to close

01-10-2011

By Diana Lambert/Sacramento Bee

A new report shows that the achievement gap between white students and African American and Latino students in California will take years to narrow – and that boys are falling further behind girls. In 2009 there was a gap of 27 percentage points between fourth-grade white students and African American students, and a gap of 22 percentage points between white and Latino students in math. There also was a 28 percentage point gap between white and African American fourth-graders in reading. Those statewide results mirror 2010 results for fourth-grade students in most Sacramento metropolitan school districts. The Natomas Unified School District had a gap of 31 percentage points between the achievement of white and African American students, while Davis Joint Unified had a gap of 34 points. The gap between fourth-grade white students and Latino students in reading was 29 percentage points statewide. Locally, it was much higher in several districts. (more…)

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