Additional Resources Achievement plan refined Chapel Hill-Carrboro officials and parents are eager to act on goals in the latest report on minority student achievement. Report shows race gap The Orange County school district plans to form a committee dedicated to erasing disparities in students' performance, a move that comes just as the Board of Education reviews a racial breakdown of math and reading test scores that show the gap between black and white students ranging from 15 to 30 percentage points. Among black students who took the state's math test this past spring, the children who fell back below grade level actually outnumbered those who improved their scores to a passing level. Racial gap persists The achievement gap between black and white students in Chapel Hill-Carrboro elementary and middle schools stopped closing this year, news that comes just as the school board is set to tackle new recommendations tonight on improving minority student achievement. The state superintendent outlines a 10-point plan to close the racial achievement gap in the schools.
Key legislators say the project is a priority.
Forging varied paths toward achievement The students at Merrick-Moore Elementary School in Durham know the drill. Starting with introduction and objectives, and working through practice and closure, every teacher uses a nine-step lesson plan for nearly every subject. The gap in achievement between white students and those of other races is being addressed in several ways. Shut gap at school, state told Support for public schools will evaporate among parents of all races unless North Carolina's educators move aggressively to close the education gap between white and minority students, a statewide advocacy group warned Thursday. The state's minority schools plan to develop outreach programs that could boost minority students' testing abilities.