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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a black person it pains me to say its largely the percentage of poor blacks in DC that causes a lot of that last place finish. Many generations of low/no opportunity, discrimination etc.  The fact is whites in DC have the highest score of all "states" on that website.  So OP by your selection criteria (this website) DC has the best public schools in the country.

(Or maybe as others have said above, income and test performances correlate.) [/quote]

I have to wonder how much of the struggles of low income African- Americans today are due to the terrible conditions in most African-American schools in the South until school desegregation, which didn't happen in many areas until the 1960s and the economic need for children to leave school to work in the fields.  So  many families who moved to cities weren't able to help their children learn to read, etc.   And racism led to white flight and declining tax revenues to fund urban schools until fairly recently.   We have got to find a way to close the achievement gap.  I wonder when we'll have results to assess whether near universal early childhood ed is working. [/quote]

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