Why Black Students Are Making Progress

Why Black Students Are Making Progress

David J. Armor, in The Public Interest (Summer 1992), 1112 16th St. N.W., Ste. 530, Washington, D.C. 20036.
The bad news about the lives of many blacks living in America's cities is all too familiar: drugs, crime, joblessness, family breakdown, and, many ac- counts, failing public schools. Yet, in the face of these oft-reported woes, black students in America over the course of the 1970s and '80s posted sub- stantial gains in math and reading achievement, according to the National Assessment of...

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