California schools get failing grade
February 23, 2009
By Judy Lin
Student achievement gaps along racial lines persist in California, where schools attended primarily by African American and Latino students are far more likely to lack fundamental learning conditions than schools serving white and Asian students.
These findings were released today, Feb. 23, in “The California Educational Opportunity Report: The Racial Opportunity Gap,” prepared by UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA) at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and the University of California All-Campus Consortium On Research for Diversity (UC/ACCORD).
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