Minnesota community members ponder what to do to address continuing racial achievement gap
Minnesota community members ponder what to do to address continuing racial achievement gap
Chances are, most everybody at last week’s Minneapolis Foundation get-together — certainly the education honchos — had heard for years about the academic achievement gap between white and non-white kids in our schools.
Yet even they may have been a little startled to hear a think-tank bigwig from D.C. say this:
“Minnesota is doing pretty miserably compared to many other states. Your black kids are performing below black kids in Alabama and South Carolina.”
