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Video of Dr. Paige at Thomas B. Fordham Institute Event

Closing the black-white achievement gap is the "greatest civil rights issue of our time," according to Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education. Watch this video to hear Paige discuss this problem and its solutions during a recent event at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he was joined by Hugh B. Price, former President and CEO of the National Urban League, as well as James Forman, Jr., a Professor at Georgetown Law school.

Confronting the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time: How the Black-White achievement gap sabotages equal opportunity

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?

State and Federal Education Policy Has Failed to Reform America’s Schools

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Chartwell Education Group

Since the enactment of the Elementary and secondary Education Act is 1965, America has depended on state and federal education policy as its main tool to improve education in American schools. Yet, here we are now forty-four years later, after having spent decades of effort, tons of money, volumes of educational punditry and political debate; still hopelessly flooded with underperforming schools.

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