Black pupils still lagging behind
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Black ethnic minority pupils are still outperformed by their white classmates but continue to narrow the gap.
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White pupils from poor homes are most likely to persistently underachieve, a study says.
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Too many school leavers  cannot  read, write or add up properly, large businesses complain.
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A report says increased school choice does little to enhance the educational opportunities of black pupils.
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Even as African Americans and other minorities have made economic progress in the last 40 years, many of those reaching the middle-income rung are finding it a hollow promise.
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Truancy in English schools remains stubbornly high even though nearly Â£900m has been spent on the problem.
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Â· Schools in disadvantaged areas progressing most Â· Too few pupils get good grades, say critics
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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Even the back-to-school season doesn't heat up Hot Topic.
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Young black people in the United States struggle to reconcile the rhetoric of a society that promises opportunity for all with the discrimination they often face, according to a survey published on Thursday.
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Massachusetts high school students once again outscored their peers nationally on the 2004 SAT, but state officials remain concerned that African-American and
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As students head back to school, there's an extra push to bring those who never graduated back into the classroom.
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A Â£45bn school building programme is hit by delays and a lack of expertise, the government admits.
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Figures taking pupils' socio-economic backgrounds into consideration are misleading, say researchers
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Black Americans outraged at unequal treatment of pupils in high school dispute
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Almost all the children who could not find elementary school places in a Dublin suburb this year were black, the government said Monday, highlighting Ireland's problems integrating its increasingly diverse population.
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The nation's fourth- and eighth-graders continue to improve steadily in mathematics, and fourth-grade reading achievement is on the rise, according to test scores released yesterday. Black and Hispanic students are also making broad gains, though significant achievement gaps persist.