The North Carolina Education and Law Project of the NC Justice Center released their 2006 Academic Achievement Gap Report, and it shows that minority students continue to do poorly on state tests.
The report suggests that the causes of the gap are various expressions of racism and poor teachers. The solutions that the report offers are predictable: much more funding, more government-sponsored activism, and more teachers that “comfortably exchange or interact across ethnic/cultural lines in the classroom and beyond.”
The question is simple. Why do minority communities continue to have faith in a school system that continues to fail them?
