[Tai_Chung]

The Black - White gap dropped from 40% to to 28%
The Black - Hispanic gap dropped from 20% to 15%
The Hispanic - White gap dropped from 20% to 13%

If reducing the gap to zero is the real goal, why not try to make white children do poorly?

This focus on the gap will tend to dumb-down education. They will try to make the test easy as a way to improve the scores of everyone. If you compare the students to those of other countries, there would be no incentive to dumbing-down education.

[summer]

They are not "dumbing down" education here in FL. Standards are being raised. You are wrong again. Sorry. :)