Research Library
African American Educational Opportunity Report 2007
Subtitle: California's African American Opportunity Gap
Publisher: UCLA/IDEA and UC/ACCORD
Publication Date: 2007, November
Summary or Abstract:
California schools enroll almost one-half million African American students. Only four states (TX, FL, GA and NY) enroll more. Some of California's African American students achieve the highest levels of academic success, but, as a group, they fare poorly on standardized test scores, rates of high school completion, enrollment in four-year universities, and college degree attainment.
This report probes the nature of the gaps in achievement between African American students and their white and Asian peers, and proposes new directions for intervention.