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When D.C. schools’ test scores were announced recently, there was that gap again: the so-called racial achievement gap. Actually, it was more like a chasm. Eighty-two percent of White students ...

To show how achievement gaps have grown over the last decade, I have graphed PISA scores for each percentile group relative to that percentile group’s 2012 scores (see charts below).

We found that Black-White and Hispanic-White achievement gaps in reading, mathematics, and science achievement are already very large by first grade.

But it's far from the familiar achievement gap narrative: Scores for low-performing white students declined in more assessments compared with their Black and Hispanic peers, for example.

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