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Closing the Achievement Gap by Providing Poor and Minority Students Access to Suburban Schools
Led by TC's Amy Stuart Wells, the first comprehensive study of the nation's eight remaining inter-district school desegregation programs - which were expressly created to enable disadvantaged, black and Latino students cross school district boundary lines and attend affluent, predominantly white suburban public schools - has found that these programs help close black-white and Latino-white achievement gaps, improve racial attitudes and lead to long-term mobility and further education for the students of color who participate. Released: 11/12/2009
Susan Fuhrman Assumes Presidency of National Academy of Education Released: 10/23/2009