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Recent trends offer some reason for optimism. Since 2000, with little notice, the gap between both African American and Hispanic students and whites has narrowed in the 4th and 8th grade tests in math and the 4th grade reading test conducted for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation's common yardstick of student performance. On 8th grade math, the gap since has narrowed for Hispanic but not black students. That's a significant improvement from the 1990s when African Americans and Hispanics failed to gain ground on most of those tests. Similarly, after changing little from the 1970s through 2000, high school graduation rates for Hispanic and African American students have climbed steadily since 2002 to the highest levels ever recorded.

These results suggest the U.S. may have too quickly abandoned the No Child Left Behind legislation that President Bush signed in 2001 (and President Obama modified with a waiver system that allowed states to trade more flexibility for greater accountability). That law faced opposition from teachers and some parents over its requirements for annual student tests and mandated intervention in struggling schools. But it also required schools to publicly report test results for each racial group and prescribed clear penalties if they failed to improve performance for all students. The test and graduation trends for minority students suggest that pressure had a positive (if often resented) effect.

Under its replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act that Obama signed last year, schools still must test annually and report the results by racial group. But now districts will decide how to intervene in under-performing schools. The law will succeed only if communities feel as much urgency about lifting all of their students without the pressure of federal penalties if they don't.

Even with undeniable gains since 2000, the racial disparities in educational outcomes remain imposing. While 87 percent of white students, for instance, graduate from high school on time, that number falls to 76 percent for Hispanics, and 73 percent among African Americans. And although white, African American and Hispanic students are now about equally likely to start college immediately after completing high school, black and brown students remain much less likely to complete a BA within six years. That disparity hints at the large enduring difference in the quality of the K-12 preparation many minority students are receiving.

Truly leveling the playing field will require difficult changes in the education system, such as greater efforts to ensure that more of the best teachers are assigned to the schools facing the most obstacles rather than those enjoying the most advantages. But it also requires a realistic acknowledgement that schools alone cannot overcome all of the headwinds confronting minority and low-income students.

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How Racial Gaps in Education Became America's Defining Challenge

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Recent trends offer some reason for optimism. Since 2000, with little notice, the gap between both African American and Hispanic students and whites has narrowed in the 4th and 8th grade tests in math and the 4th grade reading test conducted for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation's common yardstick of student performance.

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Massachusetts has some of the best education in the country, but is no where at the top of having equal education for everyone

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Lizzette Delgadillo, a junior at Colombia university, speaks firsthand about the struggles related to being low income in college. She refers to a website used to share experiences with financial inequality in the school anonymously, and talks about the horrible things that these people had to do in order to make enough money to get by. Websites like these are made to increase awareness of these struggles and allow for the school systems to figure out ways to better the situation they put their students in. "One student said that they've had to become, like, a sugar baby, or an escort... but to just see people post stuff like that, and say they've had to go through things like that is horrible." (Delgadillo)

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In June 2020, Brown University did a study on Inequality in Massachusetts Education and studies show that between      2003-2011 college graduation rates went up. This was a good start, but another big difference was the number of black and Hispanic people going to college compared to white shrunk from what it was before.  The Papey from the Population Studies and Training center states “As states and districts consider their funding priorities, they need to redouble efforts to close racial, ethnic and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes.” (Papey). If Massachusetts does not start becoming more equal than we will only stray more apart

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Education should be the same no matter your race, but sadly that is not the case. Many people suffer a great loss in their education solely based on their race.

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Inequality in education will effect people in the short term, but will heavily effect people in the long term. This could heavily determine how much money they make in their life.

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BEAM asks: what does it really take to help underserved students reach their goals of being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, or programmer? The mission of Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics is to provide a realistic pathway to this goal.

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Does being a certain color affect the quality of education you are taught, it seems as if today housing segregation drastically impacts the school systems. People who live in poorer areas tend to get a worse education then the people who live in richer areas. The schools with worse education systems tend to have a variety of cultures while the prominently rich neighborhoods have more white children going to the schools with more quality of an education. It seems as if all of this relates back to the Civil rights movement and how we are still having to take steps to racism in the shadows.

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Video on how Inequalities in Education happen

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Video on how Inequalities in Education happen

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Survey in video were taken in the UK, but the ideology is still relevant to the U.S today.

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Blue= Racially Equal
White=Not Racially Equal

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Massachusetts Education System Racially 

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Massachusetts Education System Racially 

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Massachusetts Education System Racially 

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The pandemic has affected many school systems turning them into a remote environment. Therefore it changed the way students learnt and how teachers taught. It's hard changing in such a significant way. Mariella Murillo, who is a senior at Boston Arts Academy has shared her struggles throughout remote learning. Some of the struggles she had was nothing she could really control. She lives in a small housing area and doesn't have a proper workspace. It feels as if her class is just black profile pictures and names. There isn't any socialization with virtual learning and it impacts her greatly mentally and physically as she's also stuck on a screen for hours. To add on to that her whole family contracted COVID. It seems as if there is no learning in the education system right now but just a system.

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Resources given to students during Covid-19 based on income

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Resources given to students during Covid-19 based on income

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We all know that education is important, and that we most likely need an education if we want to get a well paying job, and when people are asked what is the most important stage in schooling a decent proportion will say college as that is when you learn about how to do the job that you eventually want to do. Although their reasoning is not wrong, they themselves are wrong. It is primary education(Grades pre-k to 7th) which are the most important as not only does it set the foundation for all future education, but also is an important stage for social and mental development.