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  2. Racial achievement gap in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...

  3. National Alliance of Black School Educators - Wikipedia

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    In 1972, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of Special Concern's Office of African-American Affairs, awarded NABSS a grant to conduct an in-depth research study of 40 school districts headed by African-American superintendents. Dr. Meharry Lewis was the principal investigator for the grant.

  4. History of African-American education - Wikipedia

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    The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for the related policies and debates. Black schools, also referred to as "Negro schools" and " colored schools ", were racially segregated schools in the United States that originated in the ...

  5. ‘It was shocking’: Miami AP African American Studies students ...

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    READ MORE: Lawyers have 3 students ready to sue if Florida bans African-American Studies AP class The College Board is expected to release its updated version of the AP course Wednesday, the first ...

  6. Educational inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.

  7. Charles Henry Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Thompson worked to provide other African American students with the opportunity to use the resources available to him in education to be able to spread information about education and race. [5] He had a strong belief that education should be available to gifted African American students and anyone in low income families so that everyone would ...

  8. Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics

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    The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students."

  9. Afrocentric education - Wikipedia

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    The term "miseducation" was coined by Carter G. Woodson to describe the process of systematically depriving African Americans of their knowledge of self. Woodson believed that miseducation was the root of the problems of the masses of the African-American community and that if the masses of the African-American community were given the correct knowledge and education from the beginning, they ...