Education is considered the key to upward mobility, yet many black students remain trapped in failing schools. And they are significantly more likely to be trapped in such schools than white students. In Newark, New Jersey, for example, where blacks make up over half the student population, just 6% of black students attend the city’s top-scoring schools for math. By contrast, 85% of white students are enrolled in such schools. In Portland and Seattle, black students are four times more likely to attend a school scoring in the bottom 20% in math than white students.[i] Black students often find themselves
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