Racial Gap

Study Finds That Outdoor Education Can Close the Racial Gap in Environmental Literacy

When middle school students were taken outdoors to learn about environmental science, they were more likely to perform better academically in the subject compared to their white peers than in cases when all students remained in the classroom for instruction.

The Gender Gap in African American Medical School Enrollments

Nationwide, women make up 47.2 percent of all medical school students in the United States. But for African Americans, the gender gap is significantly in favor of women.

Study Examines Racial Differences in Divorce Rates for Highly Educated Women

A new study by an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, finds that highly educated Black women are not as sheltered from divorce compared to highly educated women of other racial and ethnic groups.

Brandeis University Study Analyzes the Large and Growing Racial Wealth Gap

The racial wealth gap has tremendous consequences in the ability of African Americans to afford higher education. The report finds that in 2009 the median net worth of White households was $265,000. For Black households, the figure was $28,500.

New Report Shows That Blacks Are Doing Poorly in Los Angeles County Schools

The report concludes that "if current trends continue, only 1 in 20 of today’s African-American kindergartners will go on to graduate from high school and complete a degree at a four-year California university."

Federal Commission Finds Vast Inequities in U.S. Educational System

The report of the U.S. Equity and Excellence Commission found that the achievement gap between children from high-income and low-income families is significantly wider for children who were born in 2001 than for children born 25 years earlier.

Black Participation in the AP Program Soars, But a Large Racial Scoring Gap Persists

Blacks made up 14.5 percent of the graduating Class of 2012 but were 9.2 percent of all AP test takers and only 4.4 percent of all students who successfully completed an AP examination.

Good News! More Than 5 Million African Americans Now Hold College Degrees

For Blacks over the age of 25 in 2012, 21.2 percent held a college degree. This is an increase from 19.9 percent in 2011. For Whites over the age of 25 in 2012, 34.5 percent held a college degree, up from 34.0 percent in 2011.

A Significant Racial Gap in Academic Preparation for a College-Level Curriculum

New information from the U.S. Department of Education shows that during the 2007-08 academic year, 30.2 percent of all first-year African American college students took remedial courses compared to 19.9 percent of first-year White students.

A Check-Up on Black Progress in Nursing Degree Programs

According to data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Black have made tremendous progress over the past decade in increasing their percentage of students in bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs in nursing.

The Racial Gap in Homework for Students Preparing for College

Only 29.7 percent of Black high school students do homework five or more days per week compared to 44.3 percent of White high school students.

Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities

For the sixth year in a row, Columbia University in New York City has the highest percentage of Black first-year students among the 30 highest-ranking universities in the nation.

New Report Looks to Explain the Racial Gap in College Graduation Rates

A new report from the American Council on Education examines why Black and Hispanic students have significantly lower rates of degree attainment than other students at U.S. colleges and universities.

University Study Finds That the Racial Gap in Fatal Coronary Disease Is Widening

The research, conducted at the University of Alabama Birmingham, shows that despite a steady decline in fatal coronary heart disease for all groups, since 2000, the racial gap has actually increased.

Blacks Take Far Longer Than Whites to Earn Their Bachelor’s Degrees

For those who earned a bachelor's degree in the 2007-08 academic year, the average amount of time for Blacks to earn their degree was 98 months compared to 73.3 months for Whites. Nearly a quarter of Blacks took more than a decade to earn their bachelor's degree.

New Data Shows a Wide Racial Disparity in the GPAs of College Graduates

Whites were more than twice as likely as Blacks to graduate with grade point averages better than 3.5. Blacks were nearly three times as likely as Whites to graduate with a GPA of less than 2.5.

ACE Program Seeks to Increase the Number of Minority College Presidents

The American Council on Education's Spectrum Executive Leadership Program is an initiative that has the goal of making the leadership of higher education more representative of the people it serves.

African Americans Are Slowly Closing the Gap in Medical School Enrollments

But a racial gap remains. African Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population but are only 7.3 percent of all first-time enrollees at U.S. medical schools.

The State of Florida Sets Educational Goals by Race

The state set a goal that 88 percent of White students and 74 percent of Black students meet or exceed grade-level reading standards by 2018.

Checking the Progress of Black Faculty at the University of Missouri

The flagship campus of the University of Missouri at Columbia reports that in 2011 there were 51 Black faculty members on campus. This was one fewer than in 2006.
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