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Speaker debunks achievement gap theories (Riverside, Calif. Press-Enterprise)

The achievement gap between middle-class white students and poor black or Latino students isn?t just academic, a speaker said Tuesday at a Summer Institute put on by the University of Redlands? Center for Educational Justice.

“We need to change the discourse from achievement gap to what I call educational debt,” said Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor in educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin and a former president of the American Educational Research Association.