Achievement Gap Key to ‘State of Black Pgh’ from the New Pittsburgh Courier
"African-American and Hispanic students trailed their White peers by an average of more than 20 test score points on the National Assessment of Education Progress math and reading assessments at fourth and eight grades,” Bush said. “That’s according to analyses by the National Center for Education Statistics in 2009 and 2011, which concluded that the gap equates to a difference of about two grade levels."