Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX - African-American students score below 75 percent of white students on most standardized tests. It is no coincidence that young white adults are approximately twice as likely as their black peers to earn a college degree and nearly three times less likely to land in prison. In critical academic matters, why do black American children overwhelmingly lag behind white American children? What are the long-term economic, social, and racial ramifications for our country if we continue to overlook this deeply distressing reality?