What Young Men Of Color Can Teach Us About The Achievement Gap

Public schools in the U.S. now have a majority of nonwhite students. That's been the case since 2014, and yet children of color — especially boys — still lag behind their white peers. This story has been all over the media. It's topic No. 1 at education conferences on university campuses. Even the White House is all over it. But what Ron Ferguson wants to know is why. And he says there's a big group of experts out there who never get asked about it: boys and young men of color. Ferguson, an economist at Harvard University, says that if we want to fix this problem, we need to listen to these students....
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