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High (And Low) Expectations: Racist Assumptions Widen Achievement Gap

D. Altan, New America Media. December 8, 2006.
Media attention to an educational "achievement gap" has perpetuated the problem by firing up racists, who suggest that black and Latino kids cannot compete with their white and Asian peers.

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