Schools beat: We Know How To Close This Gap

Test scores show American kids lost huge ground during COVID, and “Black and Hispanic students slid even further behind, widening gaps that were already troubling” — even though we know it’s “possible to erase the racial achievement gap in less than two years, by applying simple reform principles to the worst-performing schools,” fumes Roland Fryer at The Wall Street Journal .

His research on “which practices truly boosted student learning” clearly showed: “What mattered most were five concrete, replicable practices: more instruction time, high expectations, frequent teacher feedback, data-driven instruction and high-dosage tutoring.”

Applying these principles in low-performing Houston schools proved it could “close the racial achievement

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