The achievement gap between white children and those of color in our nation's schools has profound repercussions for families and communities.

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The achievement gap between white children and those of color in our nation's schools has profound repercussions for families and communities, but consider as well what it means to us collectively: according to a report from McKinsey & Company, New York, if the performance gap of black and Latino students as measured by test scores had caught up with that of white students by 1998, last year's gross domestic product would have...