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Explore CT school districts’ achievement gap by race and ethnicity

By Jake Kara | January 12, 2016

The tool below can be used to explore racial and ethnic achievement gaps on the 2014-15 Smarter Balanced test in many Connecticut school districts.

Education

Connecticut’s gaps in white, minority graduation rates shrink

By Andrew Ba Tran | December 17, 2015

More than nine out of ten white students graduated in Connecticut in the 2013-14 school year. Meanwhile, about 74 percent of Hispanic students graduated— up from 70.2 percent the previous year.

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Ranking the change in achievement gap state by state

By Andrew Ba Tran | October 28, 2015

Connecticut led several other states in how it shrank the achievement gap between minority students and their classmates in math and reading.

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When it comes to vocabulary, large gaps among Connecticut’s demographic groups

By Alvin Chang | August 13, 2015

The performance gap between white and minority students when it comes to vocabulary is formidable — a word that nearly two-in-three white students could correctly interpret in the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress; meanwhile, a little more than half the black and Hispanic test-takers got this word correct.

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Chart: Achievement gap between in Connecticut vs. other states

By Alvin Chang | November 8, 2013

Connecticut’s achievement gap between White students and Black/Hispanic students is wider than the nation as a whole in each grade and subject, based on national tests.

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