Charter Schools Can Close the Education Gap
By bcope on January 13th, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
By JOEL I. KLEIN and AL SHARPTON
The Wall Street Journal
It is not acceptable for minority students to be four grade levels behind.
Dear President-elect Barack Obama,
In the afterglow of your election, Americans today run the risk of forgetting that the nation still faces one last great civil-rights battle: closing the insidious achievement gap between minority and white students. Public education is supposed to be the great equalizer in America. Yet today the average 12th-grade black or Hispanic student has the reading, writing and math skills of an eighth-grade white student.