Article Source: CS Monitor

A new study looked at student performance in all 50 states since 2002, when No Child Left Behind Act took effect. The focus: achievement gaps for minority and low-income students.

The news from a major new education study is encouraging: Student achievement is going up, and the gaps in test scores between subgroups – such as between African-Americans and whites – are closing across all grade levels and subjects. "This is good news for the country," says Jack Jennings, president of CEP, noting that the United States has been trying to address the achievement gap for more than 10 years. "All that now seems to be bearing fruit.... It shows that if we concentrate on something for a long enough period of time, we can have good results."

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