Since the 1960s, the academic achievement gap between black and white students in the United States has been prevalent. Black student academic achievement is on average two grade levels below whites. In the last 30 years, ...

As the number of would-be first-generation college students increases in high schools across the United States, policymakers must look for more ways to increase rates of postsecondary enrollment for this often vulnerable ...

The black-white academic achievement gap in the American education system persists, despite decades-long efforts to close it. Several theories have been posited to explain this achievement gap between students of different ...