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To: LindyBill who wrote (98516)2/3/2005 4:17:51 PM
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Joanne Jacobs - Private schools close racial gap

The achievement gap between black and white students narrows significantly between fourth and 12th grade for private school students; for public school students, it narrows slightly in writing and math but widens in reading and science, writes Andrew Coulson of Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He has a table of scores from the federal National Assessment of Educational Progress.

As the table shows, there is a sizeable achievement gap between black and white fourth-graders in both public and private schools. It is also clear that the private-sector racial achievement gap is narrower at the 12th grade than at the 4th grade in all of the core NAEP subjects.

. . . Averaged across subjects, the public school racial achievement gap is virtually unchanged between fourth and 12th grades. By contrast, the gap in private schools is an average of 27.5 percentage points smaller at the 12th grade than at the fourth.

The comparison underestimates the effect of private schools, Coulson adds. Black students at private schools are far more likely to remain in school, graduate and go on to college compared to similar black students in public schools. In public schools, most low achievers drop out before 12th grade.
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