A new study from the Center on Education Policy (CEP) finds that African American students have made gains on state reading and math tests and have narrowed achievement gaps with white students since 2002, when the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act took effect. Despite this progress, African American students as a group often had the lowest performance among racial/ethnic groups on 2008 state tests at grades 4, 8, and the high school grade assessed for NCLB. This pattern was evident in states with the greatest numbers of African American students, as well as many other states. The full report can be found on this site: http://www.cep-dc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=document_ext.showDocumentByID...