"The Achievement Gap"
The goal of public schools in the US is to give American citizens a chance at an equal education. However somewhere over time this system has failed to provide all children with this said education. More specifically it has failed at giving African American children an adequate education. When looking at mandatory state test scores of African Americans they are significantly lower than those of white Americans. The achievement gap in education between whites and blacks is a big problem the American education system has and needs to solve. In this essay I will discuss why there is an achievement gap in education between white and black students and what teachers can do to help close this gap.
In order to see why there is an achievement gap it is necessary to look at the education that many minorities are provided with. There is a big difference between the education that is taking place between the suburbs and the inner city. Inner city public schools are......
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