It is not acceptable for minority students to be four grade levels behind.
By JOEL I. KLEIN and AL SHARPTON
Dear President-elect Barack Obama,
In the afterglow of your election, Americans today run the risk of forgetting that the nation still faces one last great civil-rights battle: closing the insidious achievement gap between minority and white students.

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January 12th, 2009

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