Closing Gap?

The gist of this article is that after years of measuring NYC's efforts to close the achievement gap showed consistent success, the gains made by black and Hispanic students relative to white and Asian students largely disappear when a widely accepted national measure is used instead of the state tests that had provided the earlier data. This is the kind of data that will be trumpeted about and said to mean many things, but I need to quote my statistics professor once more: "figures lie, and liars figure."

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