Archive for the 'African-Americans' Category

The Achievement Gap

March 17, 2007

Why aren’t African-Americans achieving all that they could? American blacks are twice as likely to be in poverty as non-blacks, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and they make nearly $5,000 a year less, on average. What exactly is standing in their way? That’s not an easy question, but some compelling and controversial answers are [...]