In recent years, harrowing statistics regarding the aptitude of black students in America have been run through the media with alarming frequency. In 2010, the New York Times reported that only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys were proficient in reading, compared to 38 percent of white boys. Those figures came from a study produced [...]
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