The Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies is a university-based program that provides professional development opportunities for mid-career, black journalists and practical news gathering experiences for black journalism students.
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A Project of the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies
The black-white achievement gap in public schools is a decades-long problem in the United States that shows no signs of abating.
Nationally, black students are three times more likely than white students to be placed in special education programs and half as likely to be in gifted ones. Just 14% of black 4th-graders are proficient in national reading assessments compared with 43% of white students. And by 8th grade, there’s a 30-point gap in math scores between black and white students.
For several weeks, professional reporters and students from The Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies at North Carolina A&T University have interviewed dozens of education proponents, experts and school officials across the country to try to define the achievement gap and to ferret out solutions to the problem.
These stories are part of a four-part series based on that reporting.
