Surprise, Surprise! Study Finds Achievement Gap Progress Stops In Eighties (When Poverty Rates Begin To Rise) | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Surprise, Surprise! Study Finds Achievement Gap Progress Stops In Eighties (When Poverty Rates Begin To Rise) | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Surprise, Surprise! Study Finds Achievement Gap Progress Stops In Eighties (When Poverty Rates Begin To Rise)

by Larry Ferlazzo

The Washington Post has a report on a new study from The Educational Testing Service.
It finds that:
“…there was a steady narrowing of the achievement gap from the 1970s until the late 1980s. Scores essentially