New education standards won't close achievement gap - Richmond.com: News - 26 views
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hcps-bhojanifs on 02 Feb 15"This year, 68 percent of white students met the math targets, while only 45 percent of black students did. In other words, the achievement gap is 23 percent. By the 2017-2018 school year, Virginia says that 57 percent of black students and 78 percent of white students will need to pass. So six years from now the achievement gap will be at 21 percent." This article is an evidence of the fact that "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) is not give a powerful effect that Virginia had hoped it would. It portrays that races like whites and Asians are statistically doing better in terms of education than black students. Virginia's goal to lower the black-white academic achievement by 2 points in six years is ridiculous and provokes students to be differentiated in terms of race.