Racial and ethnic inequality in education has a long and persistent history in the  ... Achievement gaps are one way of monitoring the equality of educational  outcomes. ... Every few years, a sample of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds from around  the United ... Achievement gaps have been narrowing because Black and  Hispanic ...
Jul 29, 2015 ... While black voters overwhelmingly register as Democrats, Bush has said he will  ... recent change in how students report ethnicity during the admissions process.  ... said Florida is "one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the  achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity.
Apr 17, 2018 ... Racial achievement gaps continue gradual decline, income-based gaps ... The  current results indicate that trend has continued, as shown in Figures 1 and 2  below. ... Some states have made large strides in narrowing these gaps since ...  of states have made progress on closing race- or ethnicity-based ...
One state, Florida, has demonstrated that meaningful academic ... performance- based pay for teachers, grading of schools and districts, annual ... peers is  something to which most Americans have become accustomed. .... Today,  Florida's Hispanic and black students have significantly narrowed the racial  achievement gap.
Sep 27, 2017 ... It is based on key findings from Education Inequalities at the School Starting Gate : ... the majority of total national gains in income have gone to the top 1 ..... states,  quality remained extremely low in three (California, Florida, and .... years; and  that race- and income-based achievement gaps are narrowed.
Florida is "one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity."